Visual mechanisms for voice‐identity recognition flexibly adjust to auditory noise level

Acceptable noise level, phoneme recognition in noise, and measures of auditory efferent activity.

Acceptable noise level (ANL) is unrelated to sentence recognition in noise but may be related to phoneme recognition in noise (PRN). Individual differences in efferent activity in medial olivocochlear bundle (MOCB) and acoustic reflex (AR) pathways may account for intersubject variability in ANL and PRN. Monotic and dichotic ANL, monotic PRN, contralateral suppression of transient evoked otoaco...

Auditory recognition memory is inferior to visual recognition memory.

Visual memory for scenes is surprisingly robust. We wished to examine whether an analogous ability exists in the auditory domain. Participants listened to a variety of sound clips and were tested on their ability to distinguish old from new clips. Stimuli ranged from complex auditory scenes (e.g., talking in a pool hall) to isolated auditory objects (e.g., a dog barking) to music. In some condi...

Auditory, Visual and Auditory-visual Contributions to the Cantonese-speaking Hearing-impaired Adolescents' Recognition of Consonants

This study compared the recognition of Cantonese consonants by three groups of Cantonese-speaking adolescents through visual, auditory, and combined auditoryvisual modalities. They are normal hearing, severely hearing impaired and profoundly deaf adolescents with age ranged from 16 to 18. Performance was assessed across syllable stimuli. All three groups could discriminate between the places of...

Mid-level Representation for Visual Recognition

Visual Recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in AI, where the goal is to understand the semantics of visual data. Employing mid-level representation, in particular, shifted the paradigm in visual recognition. The mid-level image/video representation involves discovering and training a set of mid-level visual patterns (e.g., parts and attributes) and represent a given image/video util...

Olive baboons, Papio anubis, adjust their visual and auditory intentional gestures to the visual attention of others