background : the number of children with cochlear implants who have other difficulties such as attention deficiency and cerebral palsy has increased dramatically. despite the need for information on the results of cochlear implantation in this group, the available literature is extremely limited. we, therefore, sought to compare the levels of auditory perception in children with cochlear implan...

Bourdieu and Darbel's classic study of European art museum audiences, The Love of Art (1991), remains one of the most influential academic studies of the social indices of art perception. Its findings were central to Bourdieu's on-going study of culture-mediated power relations, as found in the book Distinction (Bourdieu 1984), as well as social surveys of the behaviour of museum audiences acro...

In this paper, I present a version of a sense-data approach to perception, which differs to a certain extent fromwell-knownversions like the one put forward by Jackson. I compare the sense-data view to the currently most popular alternative theories of perception, the so-called Theory of Appearing (a very specific form of disjunctivist approaches) on the one hand and reductive representationali...

1 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction & Overview 3 Chapter 2 A cross-cultural comparison study of the production of simple rhythmic patterns 15 Chapter 3 Comparing rhythmic structure in popular music and speech 31 Chapter 4 The Bayesian way to relate rhythm perception and production 55 Chapter 5 Diversity and commonality in rhythm perception and production: The influence of rhythmic complexity and ...

Evaluation of singing skill is a popular function of karaoke machines. Here, we introduce a different aspect of evaluating the singing voice of an amateur singer: “enthusiasm”. First, we investigated whether human listeners can evaluate enthusiasm consistently and whether the listener’s perception matches the singer’s enthusiasm. We then identified three acoustic features relevant to the percep...

Members of the synthetic biology community have discussed the significance of word selection when describing synthetic biology to the general public. In particular, many leaders proposed the word "create" was laden with negative connotations. We found that word choice and framing does affect public perception of synthetic biology. In a controlled experiment, participants perceived synthetic bio...