We use near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess listeners' cortical responses to a 10-s series of pure tones separated in frequency. Listeners are instructed to either judge the rhythm of these "streaming" stimuli (active-response listening) or to listen to the stimuli passively. Experiment 1 shows that active-response listening causes increases in oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) in response ...

This paper describes research aimed at building ‘‘active music listening interfaces’’ to demonstrate the importance of music understanding technologies, including sound source separation and F0 estimation, and the benefit they offer to end users. Active music listening is a way of listening to music through active interactions. Given polyphonic sound mixtures taken from available music recordin...

Wave field synthesis is an auralization technique which allows to control the entire wave field within the entire listening area. However, reflections in the listening room interfere with the auralized wave field and may impair the spatial reproduction. Active listening room compensation aims at reducing these impairments by using the playback system. Due to the high number of playback channels...

The use of sound to create or enhance the sense of presence is well recognized and the measurements of which have focused on hearing, e.g. “were you able to identify a particular sound?”, “how well could you localize the sounds”. To this treatment of audition we now add, listening. Listening is active, directed, intentional hearing. This aspect of the phenomenology of sound listening has receiv...

This article explores the roles of two methods of holistic communication: active listening and focusing. Active listening is a technique used by the nurse to reflect on what a patient has said to him or her and can help patients feel more deeply and be understood better by the nurse. Focusing, a body-centered method for developing self-awareness, is a way of listening to feelings by becoming aw...

Active Empathic listening is an activity that combines traditional active procedures with the element of empathy, which will result in a higher form (Drollinger, Comes & Warrington, 2006, p.162). Drollinger et al. conceptualized AEL (active empathic listening) as three-stage activity: sensing, processing, and responding. helps us to listen understand how others feel. It one most essential s...