Echolocating bats transmit ultrasonic vocalizations and use information contained in the reflected sounds to analyze the auditory scene. Auditory scene analysis, a phenomenon that applies broadly to all hearing vertebrates, involves the grouping and segregation of sounds to perceptually organize information about auditory objects. The perceptual organization of sound is influenced by the spectr...

Although the visual and auditory systems share the same basic tasks of informing an organism about its environment, most connectionist work on hearing to date has been devoted to the very different problem of speech recognition . VVe believe that the most fundamental task of the auditory system is the analysis of acoustic signals into components corresponding to individual sound sources, which ...

Although the efficacy of computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA) has been demonstrated for use with a variety of species in assessing male reproductive quality as well as the impact of various treatments on sperm motility, many investigations continue to rely on manual analytical methods. CASA has been consistently shown to outperform such methods in terms of reproducibility as well as in the v...

Twitter’s design allows the implementation of automated programs that can submit tweets, interact with others, and generate content based on algorithms. Scholars and end-users alike refer to these programs to as “Twitterbots.” This two-part study explores the differences in perceptions of communication quality between a human agent and a Twitterbot in the areas of cognitive elaboration, informa...