In murky, crowded ponds in South Africa, female clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis (Daudin), vocalize to signal reproductive state. Female calls consist of acoustically similar clicks delivered in trains with characteristic rates. The rapping call of a sexually receptive female has a more rapid click rate [81 ms mean interclick interval (ICI)] than the ticking call of an unreceptive female (219 ms IC...

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Annually, web search engine providers spend more and more money on documents ranking in search engines result pages (SERP). Click models provide advantageous information for ranking documents in SERPs through modeling interactions among users and search engines. Here, three modules are employed to create a hybrid click model; the first module is a PGM-based click model, the second module in a d...

The model for functional organization of human auditory cortex is in part based on findings in non-human primates, where the auditory cortex is hierarchically delineated into core, belt and parabelt fields. This model envisions that core cortex directly projects to belt, but not to parabelt, whereas belt regions are a major source of direct input for auditory parabelt. In humans, the posteromed...

Auditory evoked steady-state responses are increasingly being used as a marker of brain function and dysfunction in various neuropsychiatric disorders, but research investigating the test-retest reliability of this response is lacking. The purpose of this study was to assess the consistency of the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) across sessions. Furthermore, the current study aimed to inv...

Derived from the D-luciferin regeneration pathway in firefly body, click condensation reaction between 2-cyanobenzothiazole (CBT) and D-cysteine (Cys) (CBT-Cys reaction) possesses unique advantages, including superior biocompatibility, high second order rate, metal-free mild conditions, emerging as a powerful bioorthogonal tool for variety of chemical biological applications. Moreover, owing to...

Background: although clinical use of the click stimulus for the evaluation of brainstem auditory function is widespread, and despite the fact that several researchers use such stimulus in studies involving human hearing, little is known about the auditory processing of complex stimuli such as speech. Aim: to characterize the findings of the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) performed with speec...

UNLABELLED Although the clinical use of click stimuli to assess auditory function at the brainstem is already established, and numerous research projects use such stimuli to study human hearing, little is known about the auditory processing of a complex stimulus like speech. AIM This study aimed at validating the speech stimulus as an effective method to evaluate speech auditory processing, t...

A tactile system to support severe visually-impaired or blind people in the world for their orientation and navigation had been developed. To optimize the design, some parameters of tactile display device were evaluated. In the present paper, we focused on the reaction time to tactile stimuli. In the test, the stimuli were produced through a vibration belt that was worn around the participants’...

Cats were trained in a go-no go differentiation of two acoustic stimuli (click versus tone) using the bar-pressing avoidance method. The quality of the conditioned stimuli exerted a clear effect on the rapidity of the avoidance reflex acquisition and on the proportions of short-latency bar-pressing responses executed in positive and in inhibitory trials. Removal of the proreal and orbital gyri ...