The active space of a signal is an important concept in acoustic communication as it has implications for the function and evolution of acoustic signals. However, it remains mostly unknown for fish as it has been measured in only a restricted number of species. We combined physiological and sound propagation approaches to estimate the communication range of the Lusitanian toadfish's ( ITALIC! H...

Positive psychology focuses were on the merits of individuals, such as optimism and positive attitude, and the subsequent cultivation of these virtues. Optimism or pessimism is a significant predictor of physical health outcomes. The present study examined whether optimism or pessimism is associated with the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP), a biological indicator of se...

INTRODUCTION Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder, and may be associated with neuroaudiological factors linked to central auditory processing, including changes in auditory processing skills and temporal resolution. OBJECTIVE To characterize the temporal processing and long-latency auditory evoked potential in stutterers and to compare them with non-stutterers. METHODS The study included...

Visual evoked potentials (VEP) are of particular importance for the objectivization of organic and functional defects in the visual system. This study presents, for the first time, the use of systematic VEP-monitoring in connection with manual acupuncture and laserpuncture in 40 healthy volunteers. We were not able to find significant changes in latency or in the amplitudes of VEP ́s during acup...

Brain-stem auditory potential (BAEP) latencies were measured from individuals with normal or nearly normal hearing. Different age groups were studied separately. Males have 0.1-0.2 msec longer latencies of waves III and V and longer I-V IPLs than females in all age groups. The latencies of waves I, III and V increase 0.1-0.2 msec with increasing age, but the I-V IPL was the same in all age grou...

27 of visual evoked potentials (i.e., VEPs) have been used as signal 28 features for BCIs. The design and operation of BCIs that use 29 endogenous ERP components differ both in principle and 30 practice from those of BCIs that use exogenous ERP compo­ 31 nents. This chapter focuses on BCIs that use P300, an endoge­ 32 nous ERP component. Chapter 14 discusses BCIs that use 33 exogenous VEP compo...

The extent to which changes in brain activity can foreshadow human error is uncertain yet has important theoretical and practical implications. The present study examined the temporal dynamics of electrocortical signals preceding a lapse of sustained attention. Twenty-one participants performed a continuous temporal expectancy task, which involved continuously monitoring a stream of regularly a...