Not exact matches
The trick is to teach the user
how to associate particular brain
signals with specific tasks by presenting a repeating stimulus —
auditory, visual or tactile — and getting the user to focus on it.
The finding, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by McGill researchers, highlights
how learning and experience, including developmental
auditory experience, can shape
how the brain perceives vocal
signals.
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.
A new study in ferrets shows
how auditory systems might separate the
signal from the noise.
We simulated
how physical changes to the myelin and / or redistribution of channels influenced the
signal transmission along the
auditory nerve.
An understanding of
how these noise features differentially affect
signal encodings along the
auditory pathway would require further experiments utilizing a broader set of background noises.
The simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings allowed us to explore
how theta power fluctuations driven by the movie correlate with local synaptic activity in
auditory cortex, as indexed by the BOLD
signal (Magri et al., 2012; see Materials and Methods).
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.
Especially, I have a strong interest in the
auditory system and one of my questions is
how acoustic
signals are detected, processed, and integrated in the brain.