Sentences with phrase «acoustic information»

In mammals, the functional demands made on the auditory system require extremely precise and rapid neural processing of acoustic information, and it contains a strikingly high proportion of myelinated axons.

The key was to specify a new waveform — the basic electrical signal emitted by the chip, which is modulated to encode acoustic information — that is more power - efficient to generate but still stimulates the auditory nerve in the appropriate way.

Normally when sound enters the ear, acoustic information is relayed from the ear to the brain via nerve cells, called neurons.

«When someone speaks to us, we use the acoustic information that we perceive in him or her and classify it according to various categories, such as anger, fear or pleasure,» explains Didier Grandjean, professor in UNIGE's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (SCAS) and at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (CISA).

As scientists have pointed out: «It is likely that acoustic masking by anthropogenic sounds is having an increasingly prevalent impact on animals» access to acoustic information that is essential for communication and other important activities such as navigation and prey / predator detection.»

Your experience can be seriously compromised if a center speaker is not presenting the acoustic information evenly throughout the listening area.