Auditory distance perception plays a major role in spatial awareness, enabling location of
objects and avoidance of obstacles in the environment. However, it remains under …

Although the cognitive sciences aim to ultimately understand behavior and brain function in
the real world, for historical and practical reasons, the field has relied heavily on artificial …

Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have
tackled the problem of monitoring real-time data streams and concludes with some …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

There is currently considerable interest in the consequences of loss in one sensory modality
on the remaining senses. Much of this work has focused on the development of enhanced …

Ecological validity is a relatively new concept in hearing science. It has been cited as
relevant with increasing frequency in publications over the past 20 years, but without any …

Cognitive Hearing Science or Auditory Cognitive Science is an emerging field of
interdisciplinary research concerning the interactions between hearing and cognition. It …

In a world of sensory overload, it is becoming increasingly important to provide
environments that enable us to recover our sense of well being. Such restorative ('tranquil') …

Prior to this work no structured mechanism existed in the UK to evaluate the tranquillity of
open spaces with respect to the characteristics of both acoustic and visual stimuli. This is …