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Study shows Human Sounds may Kill Fish
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal’s well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and ...
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More than meets the ear in successful cocktail party conversations
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Just picture the scene: you’re at a cocktail party, talking to someone you would like to get to know better but the background noise is making it hard to concentrate. Luckily, humans are very gifted at listening to someone ...
The human brain: Detective of auditory and visual change
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2008 |
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The human brain is capable of detecting the slightest visual and auditory changes. Whether it is the flash of a student’s hand into the air or the faintest miscue of a flutist, the brain instantaneously and effortlessly perceives ...
How the brain separates audio signals from noise
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Jun 10, 2008 |
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How are we able to follow a single conversation in the midst of a crowded and noisy room? Little is known about how the human brain accomplishes the seemingly simple task of extracting meaningful signals from noisy acoustic ...
Neurobiologists discover individuals who 'hear' movement
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses are cross-activated, some synesthetes perceive numbers or letters as having colors or days of the week as possessing ...
Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return ...
Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...
Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
New brain findings on dyslexic children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
Findings about veracity of peripheral vision could lead to better robotic eyes (w/ Video)
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Two Kansas State University psychology researchers have found that although central vision allows our eyes to discern the details of a scene, our peripheral vision is most important for telling us what type of scene we're ...
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