Sentences with phrase «auditory perception of»

Jonathan Westphal, with his view of the importance of contrasts and changing contexts in the visual perception of colour, and Margaret Masterman with her view of a reiterative flow in the auditory perception of spoken speech, were the two who were able to connect most closely with Whitehead's conception of sense - awareness of the patterned flow in the passage of nature.

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The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

As in Pentecostalism the world over, the experience of God is usually accompanied by extraordinary feelings and perceptions, such as speaking in tongues, sobbing, dancing, visions, auditory hallucinations, laughter, or exuberant joy.

Professor Barry Smith discusses sensory factors affecting our perception and enjoyment of food and drink, and the ways in which auditory and tactile cues can enhance our eating experience, together with some advice on how to keep our sense of smell longer.

The perception of sensory dissonance is a function of the physical properties of auditory stimuli, as well as those of basic physiological and anatomical constraints, resulting from limitations of the auditory system in resolving tones that are too proximal in pitch (54).

«These findings that auditory perception also goes through peaks and troughs supports the theory that perception is not passive but in fact our understanding of the world goes through cycles,» said Professor Alais from the University of Sydney.

«Such losses are particularly critical in the auditory system, because they reduce the temporal precision of signal transmission — and the quality of our perception of the acoustic environment is primarily dependent on rates of action potential generation and precise neural computation of their temporal sequences.»

«Here we have eight different experiments, some where the patients have to talk and others where they have to push a button, where some are visual and others auditory, and all found a universal signature of activity centered in the prefrontal lobe that links perception and action.

A new study published in PLOS Computational Biology investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound.

Her team is conducting brain - imaging studies to try to tease out the roots of that soundtrack as well as how a typical brain combines visual and auditory signals to improve perception.

Everyone has an instinctive sense of the world around them — even if they can't always see it, says Santani Teng, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge who studies auditory perception in both blind and sighted people.

New research suggests that the familiar voice of a spouse stands out against other voices, helping to sharpen auditory perception and making it easier to focus on one voice at a time.

The perception of music starts with specialised hair cells in the inner ear, which transmit sounds as electronic signals through the auditory pathway to the auditory cortex, where sounds are primarily recognised.

To understand this evocative force, researchers in many fields, including information science, neural perception, and signal processing, investigate music's underlying structure, examining features such as the tone, timbre, and auditory and rhythmic features of a piece.

Moreover, the brains of the successful subjects had more gray matter in a part of their auditory cortex implicated in pitch perception.

The brains of trained musicians differ from nonmusicians, and they also enjoy a range of auditory advantages, including better speech perception in noise, according to research from Kraus's laboratory.

The structure and function of the auditory system is very similar in modern humans and the first primates, suggesting high evolutionary conservation of auditory perception among species,» says Docent Irma Järvelä, the principal investigator of the study.

This discovery helps explain how humans can recover their perception of speech with electronic cochlear implants, which generate signals much simpler than normal auditory inputs.

Modeling work is underway on neural architectures of auditory processing, including frequency discrimination and spatial perception models.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

Zatorre, R. J. Cerebral correlates of human auditory processing; perception of speech and musical sounds.

In film criticism, auditory perception is rarely prioritized in the way that visual perception is, and yet when we attend a film screening, our attention is not necessarily dominated in a directional sense by the pull of the visuals.

Recommended Strategies: Supportive Provide opportunities for students to discuss concerns with teachers and counselors Address issues of motivation, self - perception and self - efficacy Accommodate learning styles Modify teaching styles (e.g., abstract, concrete, visual, auditory) Use mastery learning Decrease competitive, norm - referenced environments Use cooperative learning and group work Use positive reinforcement and praise Seek affective and student - centered classrooms Set high expectations of students Use multicultural education and counseling techniques and strategies Involve mentors and role models Involve family members in substantive ways

Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes (memory, auditory perception, visual perception, oral language, and thinking).

There may evolve a «niche market» but books that you can hold, feel and smell won't ever go away - much like vinyl records are making a come back so that the scratch of the needle and the turning disc remain as much of the experience of music as auditory perception.

People with chromesthesia are said to receive a double «whack» of input to color perception centers of the brain, from both visual and auditory stimuli.

Erin Robinson recently talked about the neuroscience of gaming at GDC China, summarizing findings that video games are increasingly being used in medical and rehabilitative therapy and playing First - Person Shooters improves visual and auditory perception.

Upon entering the terrace, one's auditory perception is immediately stimulated by the sound of clashing metal.

(Your auditory perception may vary depending on how many years you spent in front of a Marshall half - stack.)

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The test is based upon several critical components of social perception that are critical to social competence using complex, dynamic, visual, and auditory cues to assess these critical components.