Questions tagged [auditory-discrimination]
For questions regarding the brain's ability to distinguish sounds heard in speech, or (more generically) to distinguish between different auditory signals.
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Methods for comparing extracellular neural response structure to auditory stimulus structure
I have two arrays, one representing an auditory stimulus and the other representing neural activity from auditory cortex. The auditory stimulus has known temporal and spectral structure. The neural ...
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characteristics of auditory hallucinations
How common is it for someone suffering from auditory hallucinations to recognize the voice(s) as someone they know, whether it be a direct or indirect relationship? By direct I mean someone they ...
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What is the name of this phenomenon?
If you don't know anything about trees and plants, all you see in the forest is a bunch of trees. But if you know the names and appearances of different plants, you might see oaks, elms, pines etc. ...
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Does human biology compute audio fast enough to benefit from phase accurate audio propagation in 3D space?
In nature when people perceive a point source of audio moving in 3D space say when I am stationary and listening to someone talking who is walking around me does my perception of that audio benefit ...
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Do workers retain information from audio lectures when working in a physically demanding job? [closed]
If I were to start listening to lectures instead of music will I retain the information?
I've attempted to do this myself once with Assembly Language but I worked in a loud environment (sand ...
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Have EEG signals in auditory speech perception task have ever been analyzed for correlation with auditory stimuli itself?
This can be useful for getting a better grip on understanding the link between actual stimuli, brain processing, and EEG data.
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Any link between IQ and a person's ability to create or mimic sounds?
Reading some articles about animals and speech, and it just brushes a bit of the neurology of it, but that got me curious:
Is there any link between a person's (or an animal's) mimicry skill and/or ...
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What is known about how visual stimuli / preconceptions influence auditory perception? [closed]
This question occured to me as I was walking along the street today. I saw two fashionable-looking women on the street ahead of me. One of them pointed to something outside of my field of view, and ...
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Will hearing but not listening to a video mentor help me learn?
I have a A+ video mentor that I got through school. I was wondering if playing the videos as if they were music and just going about the rest of my tasks on the computer would help me to learn the ...
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How does the brain compute sound localisation without the equations?
What sort of computations are used for localising sound with the ears, and how does the brain compute the time difference between sounds reaching each ear? I am interested in the specific mechanisms ...
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How do certain frequencies of sound induce psychological states?
As one example, a specific low frequency beyond our hearing perception can make people feel nauseous and even vomit.
I'm sure there are more documented studies surrounding the correlation of auditory ...
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What causes some people to unconsciously imitate the accents of others?
Background: I often notice that when I talk with someone with an accent that I often unconsciously start to imitate their accent. Similarly, you see some people that very quickly after moving to a ...
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Source for standardized audio files for an experiment in German
I need some audio files for an experiment. In this experiment, numbers will be played to the subjects via headphones, so I need sound files with spoken numbers. Actually, a single file with a sequence ...
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Is there any chromatic analogue of the Shepard tone?
Is there any chromatic analogue of the Shepard tone? I am imagining that each pure tone would correspond to a pure wavelength of light, transformed in such a way that the middle of three consecutive ...
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Does self-directed speech help or hurt a blind subject's auditory recognition?
Recently, it was found that self-directed speech was helpful to sighted subjects engaging in a visual search task:
Participants searched for common objects, while being sometimes [sic] asked to ...
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