Two congenitally profoundly deaf adults were trained to perceive words through the Tacticon 1600 electrocutaneous vocoder, an artificial hearing prosthesis. The subjects learned to identify 50 words during 47 hours (Subject One) and 41 hours (Subject Two) of training, with a 41.6 percent rate of success across all sessions. Both subjects showed consistent error patterns during the training phas...

Adults integrate multisensory information optimally (e.g., Ernst and Banks, 2002) while children do not integrate multisensory visual-haptic cues until 8-10 years of age (e.g., Gori et al., 2008). Before that age strong unisensory dominance occurs for size and orientation visual-haptic judgments, possibly reflecting a process of cross-sensory calibration between modalities. It is widely recogni...

Numerous archives of entertainment soundtracks and other recordings such as environmental noise samples have imposed a big data challenge in audio related industries. This necessitates the use of machine audition and retrieval tools to extract semantic information for various applications. Speech recognition, environmental noise classification and music information retrieval tools haven been de...

Taste perception results from integrating all the senses. In case of audition, research shows that people can associate certain auditory parameters (e.g., pitch) with basic tastes. Likewise, surrounding sonic environment noise, music) may influence individuals’ evaluation taste attributes foods and drinks. This paper presents first pre-registered systematic examination literature on crossmodal ...

3. The Auditory Image ....................................................................................557 3.1 The Temporal Integration Problem in Audition .................................. 557 3.2 Quantised Temporal Integration ........................................................ 558 3.3 The Trigger Mechanism .................................................................... 560 3.4 ...