Session 1aPP: Psychological and Physiological Acoustics 1aPP17. Discrete and continuous auditory feedback based on pitch and spatial lateralization for human-machine-interface control

Session 1aPP: Psychological and Physiological Acoustics 1aPP8. A physiologically inspired model of auditory stream segregation based on a temporal coherence analysis

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Session 1aPP: In Memory of Bertram Scharf: Five Decades of Contributions to Auditory Perception 1aPP8. Inspiration from Bertram Scharf's work

In 1990, Bertram Scharf and I discussed about me doing a post doc in his laboratory. The opportunity to work with Bertram did not materialize, but his work in loudness, efferents, and attention has been a continuing inspiration not only for my own research but also for auditory perception, physiology and audio engineering in general. For example, a Google Scholar search of "Bertram Scharf" on J...

Combined Auditory and Vibrotactile Feedback for Human-Machine-Interface Control.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the addition of binary vibrotactile stimulation to continuous auditory feedback (vowel synthesis) for human-machine interface (HMI) control. Sixteen healthy participants controlled facial surface electromyography to achieve 2-D targets (vowels). Eight participants used only real-time auditory feedback to locate targets whereas the other e...

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Session 1aPP: In Memory of Bertram Scharf: Five Decades of Contributions to Auditory Perception 1aPP7. Tuning in the time domain revealed through detection of auditory signals of unexpected duration or presentation time

Bert Scharf was interested in how expectation affects auditory performance. He explored this question using the probe-signal method of Greenberg and Larkin, in which the listener is led to expect a particular stimulus but is occasionally presented with an unexpected but equally detectable one. The detectability of unexpected stimuli provides insight into the listener's template for the expected...

Effectiveness of gait-retraining with auditory feedback on pain and lower body kinematics in injured recreational runners

Aims and background: Abnormal hip and knee mechanics are often implicated in runners with history of injury. We considered evaluating a simple gait-retraining protocol, using auditory-external feedback, in runners with running-related injuries and abnormal hip and knee mechanics. The effect of using external-feedback may have been more profound if the content of instruction had been relevant to...