Alternative Paths to Hearing (A Conjecture). Photonic and Tactile Hearing Systems Displaying the Frequency Spectrum of Sound

Binaural Hearing and Systems for Sound Reproduction

Of Sound and Hearing

Development and preliminary evaluation of an earmold sound-to-tactile aid for the hearing-impaired.

A binaural earmold sound-to-tactile aid was constructed by inserting a vibrating element into a Lucite earmold. The earmold could be vibrated at either 80 Hz (when incoming acoustic signals were below 2000 Hz), at 300 Hz (when incoming acoustic signals were above 2000 Hz), or both (when incoming acoustic signals were broadband). Subjects were fitted with one of these bimodal vibrating earmolds ...

Sound source localization by hearing preservation patients with and without symmetrical low-frequency acoustic hearing.

The aim of this article was to study sound source localization by cochlear implant (CI) listeners with low-frequency (LF) acoustic hearing in both the operated ear and in the contralateral ear. Eight CI listeners had symmetrical LF acoustic hearing and 4 had asymmetrical LF acoustic hearing. The effects of two variables were assessed: (i) the symmetry of the LF thresholds in the two ears and (i...

Hearing beyond the spectrum

In this work we focus on the problem of acoustic signals modeling and analysis, with particular interest in models that can capture the timbre of musical sounds. Traditional methods usually relate to several "dimensions" which represent the spectral properties of the signal and their change in time. Here we connne ourselves to the stationary portion of the sound signal, who's analysis is genera...