Auditory psychophysical testing was carried out on a patient with a central pontine lesion involving the trapezoid body, who presented with a deficit in sound localisation and sound movement detection. A deficit in the analysis of time and intensity differences between the ears was found, which would explain the deficit in detection of sound movement. The impaired detection of sound movement, d...

When generating musical sound on a digital computer, it is important to have a good model whose parameters provide a rich source of meaningful sound transformations. Three basic model types are in prevalent use today for musical sound generation: instrument models, spectrum models, and abstract models. Instrument models attempt to parametrize a sound at its source, such as a violin, clarinet, o...

This study investigated whether adding auditory angular and curved sounds to tactile angle curve shapes – one unspecified sound shape positively influences the accuracy exploration time in recognising angles curves when experienced inexperienced using haptic touch. A within-participant experiment was conducted, with two groups of participants: touch, conditions: congruous (e.g., sound) incongru...

Although globalization has created ample opportunities and spaces to share experiences and information, the diffusion of ideas, especially in global health, is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of economic, political and scientific powers around the world. These ideas in global health are generally rooted in High-Income Countries (HICs), and then reach Low- and Middle-Income Coun...

All sound separation systems based on perception assume a bottom-up or Marr-like view of the world. Sound is processed by a cochlear model, passed to an analysis system, grouped into objects, and then passed to higher level processing systems. The information flow is strictly bottom up, with no information flowing down from higher level expectations. Is this the right approach? This paper summa...

In order to ensure that the information and knowledge needed for the management of healthcare is appropriately shared, human behavior within health care organizations (HCOs) needs to be carefully analyzed. Hence, guidelines, protocols, and messaging standards must be combined with models of resources and processes of patient care that are based on a sound ontology of organizations. This require...

Two experiments were carried out to estimate the effect of sound feedback: (1) operating an assembly line simulator (Experiment-A with sound feedback of hidden events), and (2) queries in database search (Experiment-B with sound feedback of the search result quality). ExperimentA: Relevant information of hidden events (e.g., disturbances and machine break downs) was given only in a visual, and ...