Rhythmic auditory cueing is a well-accepted tool for gait rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease (PD), which can now be applied in a performance-adapted fashion due to technological advance. This study investigated the immediate differences on gait during a prolonged, 30 min, walk with performance-adapted (intelligent) auditory cueing and verbal feedback provided by a wearable sensor-based syste...

Individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) often have difficulties with complex auditory information processing. In a series of two Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies, we compared BOLD signal changes between Controls and individuals with CFS who had documented difficulties in complex auditory information processing (Study 1) and those w...

background and aim: human beings receive a variety of sounds in their everyday lives. these sounds are generated by different sources, and are heard simultaneously or with a small time sequence. a characteristic of the auditory system is its ability to analyze complex sounds, and to make decisions about the source of each constituent part of these sounds. the present study intends to assess nor...

Fatigue is a multidimensional symptom with both physical and cognitive aspects, which can affect the quality of daily working life activities. Motor Imagery (MI) represents an important resource for use during rehabilitation processes, useful, among others, job integration/reintegration, neurological pathologies, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS). To define effective protocols that integrate MI r...

Recent studies by researchers, governmental agencies, and safety organizations have recognized a deficiency in the performance of medically related audible alarms [1–4]. In the clinical setting, care providers can suffer from alarm fatigue, a condition in which audible alarms in an operating room are perceived as a nuisance. In this study, we explore the auditory features associated with curren...

In 2010 the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) published a paper titled ‘Biomathematical Fatigue Modelling in Civil Aviation Fatigue Risk Management: Application Guidance’. In March 2014 an updated version of this document titled ‘Biomathematical Fatigue Models Guidance Document’ was released. The intent of the documents is to provide the aviation industry with updated guidance o...