A pitch-synchronous (PS) auditory feature extraction method based on ZCPA (Zero-Crossings Peak-Amplitudes) was proposed previously and showed more robustness over a conventional ZCPA and MFCC based features. In this paper, firstly, a non-linear adaptive threshold adjustment procedure is introduced into the PS-ZCPA method to get optimal results in noisy conditions with different signal-to-noise ...

Many musical instruments exhibit an inherent latency or delayed auditory feedback (DAF) between actuator activation and the occurrence of sound. We investigated how DAF (73ms and 250ms) affects musically trained (MT) and non-musically trained (NMT) people’s ability to synchronize the audible strum of an actuated guitar to a metronome at 60bpm and 120bpm. The long DAF matched a subdivision of th...

AMPA receptors mediate rapid glutamatergic synaptic transmission. In the mammalian cochlear nuclei, neurons receive excitatory input from either auditory nerve fibers, parallel fibers, or both fiber systems. The functional correlates of differences in the source of input were examined by recording AMPA receptor-mediated, miniature EPSCs (mEPSCs) in whole-cell voltage-clamp mode from identified ...