Mechanical strain can lead to a synthetic gauge field that controls the dynamics of electrons in graphene sheets as well as light in photonic crystals. Here, we show how to engineer an analogous synthetic gauge field for lattice vibrations. Our approach relies on one of two strategies: shearing a honeycomb lattice of masses and springs or patterning its local material stiffness. As a result, vi...

We carried out extensive audiologic, electrophysiologic, and neuropsychologic testing on a young woman who complained that she had difficulty hearing in her educational environment. Conventional audiometric results, including pure-tone, speech, and immittance audiometry, were all within normal limits. The subject performed normally on tests involving the processing of rapidly changing temporal ...

Sound has been an overlooked modality in visualization. Why? Because it is ephemeral. We experience it as it happens, often in community with others. Then, the sound is gone. Furthermore, sound in human communication is multidimensional and includes the semantic meaning of words, the meaning of expressive verbal gestures (paralingual and prosodic components), the nonvocal gestures, and relation...

We studied hearing loss algorithms in this project. As the conductive hearing loss is due to sound conducting problem in the ear canal, it can be treated with a linear sound amplifier. However, the other kind of hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, which is resulted from the disorder of the middleor inner-ear, can not be solved merely by a linear amplifier. Sensorineural hearing loss is wh...

Phonological developmental speech sound disorders (pDSSD) in childhood are often associated with later difficulties literacy acquisition. The present study is a follow-up of the randomized controlled trial (RCT) on effectiveness PhonoSens, treatment for pDSSD that focuses improving auditory self-monitoring skills and categorial perception phoneme contrasts, which could have positive impact spel...

Translational network neuroscience and models have the potential to change fundamentally our understanding of nature mental illness. Network suggests that pathology-linked systems such as emotion regulation derive from synchronized activation multiple, sometimes regionally disparate areas brain. While methods actualize this are emerging, case (e.g., those who meet criteria for a disorder) contr...

Some combinations of musical notes sound pleasing and are termed "consonant," but others sound unpleasant and are termed "dissonant." The distinction between consonance and dissonance plays a central role in Western music, and its origins have posed one of the oldest and most debated problems in perception. In modern times, dissonance has been widely believed to be the product of "beating": int...