Very few cases have been reported where tactile stimulation affects auditory perception. In this pilot study, we asked volunteers to compare the loudness of combinations of vibrotactile and auditory stimuli. A 50-300 Hz band-limited pink noise signal was used as the stimulus in the two modalities, simultaneously heard through headphones and felt in the hands to be compared to when it was heard ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the probability of having heard about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination differs by socio-demographic characteristics among Colombian women; and whether the effect of predictors of having heard about HPV vaccination varies by educational levels and rural/urban area of residence. METHODS Data of 53,521 women aged 13-49 years were drawn from the 2010 Colombia...

We explored the possibility of a unique cross-modal signature in maternal speech and singing that enables adults and infants to link unfamiliar speaking or singing voices with subsequently viewed silent videos of the talkers or singers. In Experiment 1, adults listened to 30-s excerpts of speech followed by successively presented 7-s silent video clips, one from the previously heard speaker (di...

In an eye-tracking study, we examined how fine-grained phonetic detail, such as segment duration, influences the lexical competition process during spoken word recognition. Dutch listeners' eye movements to pictures of four objects were monitored as they heard sentences in which a stop-initial target word (e.g., pijp "pipe") was preceded by an [s]. The participants made more fixations to pictur...

Rhythm is an essential part of the structure, behaviour, and aesthetics of music. However, the cognitive processing that underlies the perception of musical rhythm is not fully understood. In this study, we tested whether rhythm perception is influenced by three factors: musical training, the presence of expressive performance cues in human-performed music, and the broader musical context. We c...