Digital audio and especially music collections are becoming a major part of the average computer user experience. Large digital audio collections of sound effects are also used by the movie and animation industry. Research areas that utilize large audio collections include: Auditory Display, Bioacoustics, Computer Music, Forensics, and Music Cognition. In order to develop more sophisticated too...

Computational audition has always been a subject of multiple theories. Unfortunately very few place audition in the grander scheme of perception, and even fewer facilitate formal and robust definitions as well as efficient implementations. In our work we set forth to address these issues. We present mathematical principles that unify the objectives of lower level listening functions, in an atte...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

The funding proposed here will provide an apparatus for precisely displaying 3D sounds, advancing understanding of how humans use sound to locate sources and analyze their environment, and exploring how audition affects and is affected by vision. Specifically the proposed research aims to answer the complementary questions • What information is used to locate the source of a sound within a list...

Discrimination of speech-sound pairs drawn from a computer-generated continuum in which syllables varied along the place of articulation phonetic feature (/b,d,g/) was tested with macaques. The acoustic feature that was varied along the two-formant 15-step continuum was the starting frequency of the second-formant transition. Discrimination of stimulus pairs separated by two steps was tested al...

Research regarding crossmodal interactions has garnered much interest in the last few decades. A variety of studies have demonstrated that multisensory information (vision, audition, tactile sensation, and so on) can perceptually interact with each other in the spatial and temporal domains. Findings regarding crossmodal interactions in the spatiotemporal domain (i.e., motion processing) have al...