News tagged with noisy environments
Lip-reading computers can detect different languages
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have created lip-reading computers that can distinguish between different languages.
Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing
Feb 27, 2009 |
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So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.
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Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments. The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...
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 ...
A good ear: Rats identify specific sounds in noisy environments
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A study conducted on hundreds of rats could help us understand how the brain identifies specific sounds in a noisy environment. The investigation, soon to be published in the journal Brain, was conducted by Alex Martin of ...
Noise pollution negatively affects woodland bird communities
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences bird populations, findings with implications for the fate of ecological communities ...
Bilateral cochlear implants: A case when 2 are definitely superior to 1
May 29, 2008 |
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A study of cochlear implant patients seen by Indiana University School of Medicine physicians is the first research to show evidence that cochlear implants in both ears significantly improves quality of life in patients with ...
Lizards 'Shout' Against a Noisy Background
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Feb 21, 2007 |
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Lizards that signal to rivals with a visual display "shout" to get their point across, UC Davis researchers have found.
Flying MAV Navigates Without GPS (w/ Video)
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the last several years, researchers have been building micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can autonomously fly through different environments by relying on GPS for navigation. Recently, ...
Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.
How noise and nervous system get in way of reading skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A child's brain has to work overtime in a noisy classroom to do its typical but very important job of distinguishing sounds whose subtle differences are key to success with language and reading.
Taking up music so you can hear
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.
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