The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

Anxiety is the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorder in EU and 18% of US population experiences an anxiety at any one time. However, only 20% individuals experiencing receive a formally administered intervention, highlighting need for evidence-based interventions that can be self-administered. Music listening flexibly self-administered may useful reduction, but further evidence needed....

This study describes a binaural machine hearing system that is capable of performing auditory stream segregation in scenarios where multiple sound sources are present. The process of stream segregation refers to the capability of human listeners to group acoustic signals into sets of distinct auditory streams, corresponding to individual sound sources. The proposed computational framework mimic...

AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

III Listening comprehension is a multifaceted L2 skill and its actual mastery has proved challenging for many EFL learners (Matthews, 2018). Pre-listening supports may help us change the dire situation in developing effective listening competence. Therefore, the current study tried to examine the effect of vocabulary preparation, grammar instruction and background knowledge activatio...