This collection seeks to advance our understanding of how sound is perceived and processed by biological systems, with a particular focus on the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underpinning ...

A new AI tool harnessing human perception to refine audio quality has emerged as a breakthrough solution for real-world scenarios where clarity is paramount. This deep learning model, developed by ...

New research reveals that prolonged stress alters brain function, reducing sensitivity to sound over time. This study uncovers how the brain adapts to chronic stress, prioritizing other senses while ...

Prof Emi Hasuo studies how the brain perceives and processes sound rhythm. Surprisingly, the physical rhythm and perceived rhythm are sometimes different. Moreover, sounds of the same rhythm are ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Once there was the dress; now there’s Yanny or Laurel. Older adults tend to start losing their hearing at the higher frequency ranges, which could explain why Riecke could only hear Laurel, but his ...

A viral meme generally referred to as “Yanny versus Laurel” has become 2018’s version of the internet-dividing Dress Illusion, only for your ears. It parted Twitter like the Red Sea on Tuesday after ...

Today it is possible to deliver, store, and amplify a high quality digital audio bitstream in a wide range of consumer electronics products. However, these technical advances have often not improved ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...