Editorial: Perceptual issues surrounding the electroacoustic listening experience

The EVENT Schema in Relation to Listening and Electroacoustic Cognition1

Ways of Listening and Modes of Being: Electroacoustic Auditory Display

Auditory display is concerned with the use of non-­‐speech sound to communicate information. If the term seems at first oxymoronic, then consider auditory display as an activity of perceptualization, that is, the process of making perceptible to humans aspects or features of a ...

Editorial: Listening in Auditory Space

and normal word-recognition scores nonetheless complain that speech is difficult to understand, especially when there is background competition. In children this complaint is associated with “auditory processing disorder,” or “APD.” In adults it has been variously termed “obscure auditory dysfunction,” “KingKopetzky Syndrome,” and “APD.” In seniors it is linked to “presbyacusis.” Whatever the n...

Perceptual processing in dichotic listening.

Subjects heard two lists of 4 items each presented simultaneously to the two ears at a rate of four pairs of items per sec. A recall cue presented immediately after the test list signalled report of 4 of the 8 items. In recall by spatial location, the cue indicated whether the items on the right ear on left ear should be recalled. In recall by category name, the cue indicated the superset categ...

The Ethical Issues Surrounding Wi-Fi

Introduction In examining wireless-internet technologies (Wi-Fi), several ethical issues are exposed. While the unauthorized use of Wi-Fi is illegal in a few select cases, what is considered permissible still varies from state to state. What does not vary, however, is the fact that individuals are going to great lengths to locate unsecured wireless access points whether it is for their own bene...