This article investigates the role music and sound played in Harpo Marx’s singular ability to traverse complex, controversial social political boundaries—an that influenced Harpo’s selection as first American perform USSR after its formal recognition by USA. The Marx Brothers burst into cinema during Hollywood’s transition from silent films talkies—a essential effective translation of character...

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...

background and aim: foundations and mechanisms of auditory scene analysis (asa) including segregation and integration were especially reviewed in the study. i focused on the related studies using event-related potentials (erps). recent findings: publications on asa using erps from 1971 to 2014 indicate neural mechanisms of asa in central auditory system. conclusion: asa results in recognition o...

Sound information in video plays an important role in constructing audience experience. On the other hand, there are many circumstances where the audience cannot watch video with sounds. Subscripts are conventionally used as visual aids to provide the missing sound information. However, conventional subscripts are far less expressive for non-verbal sounds since it is designed to visualize speec...

Two approaches to the study of musical sound timbre are described and documented by psychoacoustic experiment examples. The classical bottom-up approach is demonstrated on the study of contexts of violin sounds and pipe organ sounds. Verbal attributes collected during listening tests were used for the interpretation and comparison of resulted perceptual spaces of sounds. The proposed top-down a...

An introduction to a radical new approach to solving the many challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in humanoid robotics. Through the use of a Relational Robotic Controller (RRC) and Relational Correlation Sequencer (RCS) modules, including a self-location and identification coordinate frame, behavioral programming techniques may be employed to achieve human-like levels of AI for the ident...

Verbal communication between individuals requires the parallel evolution of a vocal system capable of emitting different sounds and of an auditory system able to recognize each vocal pattern. In this work we present the evolution of a population of twins where the selection pressure is based on the ability of learning a communication pattern which allows verbal transmission of information. The ...