Histories of virtual reality (VR) usually place its origins in computing. But this can be pushed back even further by considering early experiments flight, principally the endeavour to fly instrument, that took late 1920s and throughout 1930s. This essay positions blind flight history other immersive media order understand what sensory deprivation has do with proprioception. Deprived visual aur...

The inferior colliculus of the mustache bat is similar in many respects to the inferior colliculus of more commonly studied mammals. However, the isofrequency contour devoted to processing 60 kHz, the dorsoposterior division (DPD) is greatly expanded, encompassing an area approximately equal to one-third of the central nucleus. Of particular significance is that monaural and binaural neurons ar...

A group of higher than average ability learners of the phonetic characteristics of a foreign language attempted to imitate stimuli from Japanese in tasks involving long and complex phrases and shorter minimal pair contrasts. Three information modalities were used (aural, visual, orthographic), introduced progressively, in order to test the subjects' use of different input sources. Their perform...

This paper concerns the problem of the effect of emotion change on human and machine for speaker identification. A contrasting experiment is carried out between Automatic Speaker Identification (ASI) system (applying GMM-UBM and Emotional Factor Analysis (EFA) algorithm)and aural system on emotional speech corpus MASC. The experimental result is similar to that in channel-mismatched condition, ...

We describe a Visual-Aural aid to support the visually impaired by providing them with aural feedback in form of natural speech representing their visual environment in a relatively inexpensive way. The scene is captured by an ordinary webcam and we use methods to detect, recognize and track objects, faces and text in 2D images and translate them into speech which the visually impaired individu...

Aphasic patients were given tests assessing pantomime recognition, reading comprehension, aural comprehension, and naming ability to determine whether defective pantomime recognition could be the result of a disturbance of symbolic thinking also affecting linguistic functioning. Defects in pantomime recognition always occurred in conjunction with reading defects of at least comparable severity,...