0003-682X/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.06.008 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 4478 1609; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Susini). The aim of the study presented here is to examine the effects of instructions on the perception of a sequence of interior car sounds in three different conditions. In each condition, participants listened to the same...

The clinical presentation of patients with semantic dementia is dominated by anomia and poor verbal comprehension. Although a number of researchers have argued that these patients have impaired comprehension of non-verbal as well as verbal stimuli, the evidence for semantic deterioration is mainly derived from tasks that include some form of verbal input or output. Few studies have investigated...

Recent activation and electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that sound recognition and localization are processed in two distinct cortical networks that are each present in both hemispheres. Sound recognition and/or localization may be, however, disrupted by purely unilateral damage, suggesting that processing within one hemisphere may not be sufficient or may be disturbed by the contr...

This paper presents a method for voice percussion recognition and its application to drum pattern retrieval. Recognition of voice percussion (verbalized expression of drum sound by voice) requires an approach that is different from existing methods. Individual differences in both vocal characteristics and the kinds of verbal expressions used add further complication to the task. The approach ta...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

Recent activation and electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that sound recognition and localization are processed in two distinct cortical networks that are each present in both hemispheres. Sound recognition and/or localization may be, however, disrupted by purely unilateral damage, suggesting that processing within one hemisphere may not be sufficient or may be disturbed by the contr...

The spatiotemporal profile of activation of the prefrontal cortex in verbal and non-verbal recognition memory was examined using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Sixteen neurologically healthy right-handed participants were scanned whilst carrying out a modified version of the Doors and People Test of recognition memory. A pattern of significant prefrontal activity was found for non-verbal and ver...

Voice recognition software (VRS) has increasingly been utilised to document clinical care, typically within an electronic health care record and often with the use of ‘templates’. This software has been purported to enhance doctor efficiency, reduce costs and improve patient care1. The aim of the current pilot was the mandatory adoption of VRS embedded into electronic clinical documentation wit...