objectives: the aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of olfaction, audition and tactile senses in mobility and orientation of blinds. methods: the statistical sample of this research included 100 blind persons aged between 16 and 75 years (61 males and 39 females) with different level of education (16 persons lower than the diploma, 26 persons diploma, 46 persons bachelor, 12 person ma)...

A Consumer’s Guide to Cognition, Audition & Amplification will address how cognition (top-down processing) and audition (bottom-up sensory-based processing) each contribute to our overall ability to hear and listen. Indeed, when everything goes right, cognition and audition facilitate an accurate and meaningful acoustic representation of the world. However, sensory-based systems (i.e., audition...

This paper presents the cepstral and trispectral analysis of a speech signal produced by normal men, men with defective audition (deaf, deep deaf) and others affected by tracheotomy, the trispectral analysis based on parametric methods (Autoregressive AR) using the fourth order cumulant. These analyses are used to detect and compare the pitches and the formants of corresponding voiced sounds (v...

We present an overview of some principles of synthetic vision and audition for digital autonomous actors in virtual worlds. After a short review of the state-of-the-art we focus on some aspects of synthetic vision and virtual world constraints. Then, we present a simple real time structured sound renderer. This sound renderer is used as audition channel for synthetic and real actors and synchro...

OUR REVIEWER has been instructed to deal with his subject matter in a comprehensive, analytic, critical manner, “setting forth the present status of our knowledge, making generalizations for which the collected data are adequate, and pointing out gaps in factual knowledge.” He has approached this task with the viewpoint that what we know about hearing rests upon the threefold base of psychophys...

In this paper, we present that a humanoid active audition system improved noise cancellation using humanoid cover acoustics and the cover design for an industrial exterior design. From the viewpoint of a design, the cover of humanoid should be functional and beautiful. And, the humanoid exterior should not obstruct the motion of the humanoid. In other words, a humanoid with motion requires desi...

Subjects were required to attend to a combination of stimulus modality (vision or audition) and location (left or right). Intermodal attention was measured by comparing event-related potentials (ERPs) to visual and auditory stimuli when the modality was relevant or irrelevant, while intramodal (spatial) attention was measured by comparing ERPs to visual and auditory stimuli presented at relevan...

Musicians typically rehearse far away from their audiences and in practice rooms that differ significantly from the concert venues in which they aspire to perform. Due to the high costs and inaccessibility of such venues, much current international music training lacks repeated exposure to realistic performance situations, with students learning all too late (or not at all) how to manage perfor...