Loudness summation using focused and unfocused electrical stimulation

Loudness Determined by Power Summation

Motives to mentor: Self-focused, protégé-focused, relationship-focused, organization-focused, and unfocused motives

Article history: Received 5 May 2014 This study examines the motives mentors have for providing developmental support to their protégés. Based on qualitative interviewswith 20 informalmentors, we show five broad categories of mentor motives: self-focused motives (based on individual reasons), protégé-focused motives (directed at the protégé), relationship-focused motives (directed at the relati...

Loudness summation for two channels of stimulation in cochlear implants: effects of spatial and temporal separation.

An experiment with four implantees with the Mini System 22 device was undertaken to measure the loudness summation across two channels of stimulation, with stimuli in which the current pulses were delivered alternately to each channel. The effects of varying spatial separation, temporal separation, and extent of stimulation were investigated. It was found that the absolute amount of summation v...

Modeling Temporal Effects of Spectral Loudness Summation

Recent studies have shown that spectral loudness summation depends on duration. Modifications of a current loudness model were investigated with respect to their ability to predict this effect. The original version of the model could not simulate the duration dependence of spectral loudness summation. To reconcile the model with the loudness data, three different mechanisms accentuating tempora...

Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused Users under Imperfect Communication

A totally focused user always finishes the current task or subtask before moving on to another. Typical users, however, sometimes shift back and forth between incomplete tasks and do not always communicate before doing so. This behavior poses a problem for a software agent that uses plan recognition to support its collaboration with users. Our solution is a discourse interpretation algorithm wh...