Inter-subject correlations (ISCs) of cortical responses have been shown to index audience engagement with narrative works. In parallel lines of research, continuous self-reports and physiological measures have linked listener engagement and arousal with specific musical events. Here we combine EEG-ISCs, physiological responses, and continuous self-reports to assess listener engagement and arous...

The brain has evolved the ability to integrate information across the senses in order to improve the detection and disambiguation of biologically significant events. This multisensory synthesis of information leads to faster (and more accurate) behavioral responses, yet the underlying neural mechanisms by which these responses are speeded are as yet unclear. The aim of these experiments was to ...

to study the effect of depression on the endocrine and immune systems, 557 male freshman and sophomore medical students (20-30 years old) were given beck's depression inventory. students with marks 5 or above were selected as the control (n=26) and those with marks of 20 or higher were chosen as the test group (n=27). all of the students were subjected to the following tests: cbc, differen...

A nonlinear version of the stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emission (SFOAE) was measured using stimulus waveforms similar to those used for behavioral overshoot. Behaviorally, the seven listeners were as much as 11 dB worse at detecting a brief tonal signal (4.0 kHz, 10 ms in duration) when it occurred soon after the onset of a wideband masking noise (0.1-6.0 kHz; 400 ms in duration) than when i...