The issue of whether young children rehearse in auditory memory tasks was investigated across a series of three studies comparing individual differences in articulation rates and memory spans. Applying the principles of the working-memory model, children with faster rates of speaking should have superior memory spans if they engage in rehearsal. Two of the experiments, with 4-year-old children,...

The amygdala is a critical brain region for auditory fear conditioning, which is a stressful condition for experimental rats. Adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus, known to be sensitive to behavioral stress and treatment of the antidepressant fluoxetine (FLX), is involved in the formation of hippocampus-dependent memories. Here, we investigated whether neurogenesis al...

BACKGROUND In order to evaluate the effect of an auditory-memory attention-demanding task on balance control, nine blind adults were compared to nine age-gender-matched sighted controls. This issue is particularly relevant for the blind population in which functional assessment of postural control has to be revealed through "real life" motor and cognitive function. The study aimed to explore wh...

The growing use of vibrotactile signaling devices makes it important to understand the perceptual limits on information processing. To promote that understanding, we carried out a pair experiments vibrotactile, auditory, and bimodal (synchronous auditory) temporal acuity. On each trial, subjects experienced set isochronous, standard intervals (400 ms each), followed by one interval variable dur...

An ecological approach to multimodal perception of virtual environments suggests that different perceptual mechanisms should cooperate in forming an impression of the complex surrounding. Traditionally, Virtual Environments (VE’s) has primarily been developed for the visual modality. It is hypothesized that multi-modal stimulation in VE’s raises the experience of presence perceived by the user....

UNLABELLED Auditory-Targeted Cognitive Training (ATCT), which aims to improve auditory information processing efficiency, has shown great promise for remediating cognitive deficits in schizophrenia (SZ). However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of cognitive gains made during ATCT, and some patients show negligible benefit after completing therapeutic doses of training. Identify...