There are several views about the organization of memory functions in the human prefrontal cortex. One view assumes a process-specific brain lateralization according to different memory subprocesses, that is, encoding and retrieval. An alternative view emphasizes content-specific lateralization of brain systems involved in memory processes. This study addresses this apparent inconsistency betwe...

DigiWall is a hybrid between a climbing wall and a computer game. The climbing grips are equipped with touch sensors and lights. The interface has no computer screen. Instead sound and music are principle drivers of DigiWall interaction models. The gaming experience combines sound and music with physical movement and the sparse visuals of the climbing grips. The DigiWall soundscape carries both...

Navigation Assistance for Visually Impaired (NAVI) is a vision substitute system designed to assist blind people for autonomous navigation. NAVI working concept is based on ‘image to sound’ conversion. The vision sensor, which is mounted on a sunglass, captures the image infront of blind user. NAVI processing unit processes the captured image and enhances the significant vision data by employin...

Auditory agnosia refers to the defective recognition of auditory stimuli in the context of preserved hearing. There has been considerable interest in this topic for over a hundred years despite the apparent rarity of the disorder and potential diagnostic confusion with deafness or even Alzheimer's disease (Mendez and Rosenberg, 1991—see Case P593 below). Following Lissauer's (1890) distinction ...

We report a single case study of a brain-damaged patient, ER, who showed a remarkably consistent category-specific deficit for living things. His impairment was observed across tasks (naming, definition, matching, drawing from memory, questionnaires), input modalities (visual, verbal, nonverbal auditory), and output modalities (verbal vs. pointing or visual matching responses) as well as for di...

Acoustic Web Navigator (AWN) is a prototype of an application for web browsing where structural, graphical, and text elements of web pages appear as a sound map under user’s mouse pointer or tab/arrow keys. It could serve as accessibility tool, as an interface for devices with limited visualization capabilities, for telerobotics, for sonic iconography, for development of other auditory-object i...

there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...