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Virtual concert attendees reported significant affects to their music listening experience based on the venue's color and lighting.

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People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Abstract: This paper applies human's active perception mechanism of external sound information to a mobile robot auditory system, an active sensing strategy based on dual microphones is proposed with ...

Cochlear implant (CI) users often face challenges with speech understanding in noisy environments, the overall naturalness of sound, and music perception due to limited access to low-frequency hearing ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a method for predicting the movement trends of emergency vehicles in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions using sound pressure level (SPL) analysis. The approach ...

I first encountered the McGurk effect in a neuroscience class. My professor played a video of a person moving their lips as if saying “ga,” while the audio track played “ba.” Most students heard ...