This paper presents a system that implements a society of agent performers that evolve expressive music performances (EMP) through their interactions. Each agent performer evaluates a performance using a fitness function derived from the structure of the performing piece. Agents are born with different fitness functions, representing preferences for different types of performance. A new-born ag...

Active music listening has emerged as a study field that aims to enable listeners to interactively control music. Most of active music listening systems aim to control music aspects such as playback, equalization, browsing, and retrieval, but few of them aim to control expressive aspects of music to convey emotions. In this study our aim is to enrich the music listening experience by allowing l...

LAY LISTENERS ARE RELIABLE JUDGES WHEN evaluating pitch accuracy of occasional singers, suggesting that enculturation and laypersons’ perceptual abilities are sufficient to judge ‘‘simple’’ music material adequately. However, the definition of pitch accuracy in operatic performances is much more complex than in melodies performed by occasional singers. Furthermore, because listening to operatic...

Visual enhancement of speech intelligibility, although clearly established, still resists a clear description. We attempt to contribute to solving that problem by proposing a simple account based on phonetically motivated visual cues. This work extends a previous study quantifying the visual advantage in sentence intelligibility across three conditions with varying degrees of visual information...

In normal-hearing listeners, localization of auditory speech involves stimulus processing in the postero-dorsal pathway of the auditory system. In quiet environments, bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users show high speech recognition performance, but localization of auditory speech is poor, especially when discriminating stimuli from the same hemifield. Whether this difficulty relates to the in...

Recent theories suggest that the basis of neurodevelopmental auditory disorders such as dyslexia or specific language impairment might be a low-level sensory dysfunction. In the present study we test this hypothesis in congenital amusia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe deficits in the processing of pitch-based material. We manipulated the temporal characteristics of audito...

PURPOSE To compare the performances of children with dyslexia and a control group in behavioral tests of (Central) Auditory Processing and Long Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials (P300). METHODS Participants were 22 individuals with dyslexia (study group) and 16 individuals with typical development (control group). All individuals underwent behavioral and electrophysiological assessment of (C...

Background: In this study, the question of whether auditory training for children with a reading and spelling disorder and a central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) can improve spelling performance is investigated. The training apparatus was the Audiva Company‘s DichoTrainer. Method: Dichotic discrimination, auditory/kinaesthetic perception and behavioral strengths and peculiarities as well...

We investigated the effects of eye position on auditory spatial deficits in four patients with left neglect and right-hemisphere damage, using three blocked gaze directions (35 degrees to the right, central, or 35 degrees to the left), while preventing any head-movement to ensure that initial auditory inputs remained constant regardless of eye-in-orbit position. The auditory task required speed...