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3D audio positions avail?



I used to do HRTF-based spatial audio research and I
really enjoy the field. Does anybody know of anywhere
I can look for a fun job?

Scott

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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. R-SPIN
>   2. Auditory hallucinations
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> Date:    Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:04:17 -0400
> From:    "Scharine, Angelique (Civ,ARL/HRED)"
> <AScharine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: R-SPIN
>
> Thank you for your help. I just wanted to let you
> know that I found out =
> that the CD can be ordered directly from Mark Joseph
> of the University =
> of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as described below.
>
> *************
> Angelique,
>
> I can provide the Revised SPIN CD and printed manual
> to you.  We require =
> a check for $58 payable to the University of
> Illinois (no other payment =
> method is available), sent to my attention:
>
> Mark Joseph
> University of Illinois
> Department of Speech and Hearing Science
> 901 S. Sixth St.
> Champaign, IL 61820
>
> Mark
> ************
>
> I also wanted to apologize for messing up people's
> digests. I KNOW that =
> you're supposed to use plain text, but I forgot.=20
> Angelique
> =20
> =20
> You've got to do your own growing, no matter how
> tall your grandfather =
> was. - Irish Proverb
>
> Ang=E9lique A. Scharine Ph. D.
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>
> Date:    Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:53:20 +0100
> From:    Peter Lennox
> <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Auditory hallucinations
>
> Hello,
> I tried to answer this via web-based e-mail, but it
> all went horribly wrong!
> I've been in correspondence with Olle Ollson, a nice
> chap in Sweden (Lund
> University) whose PhD involved investigating
> deficiencies in auditory scene
> analysis in schizophrenic patients. It occurred to
> me that, in this context,
> auditory hallucinations amounted to, as it were,
> erroneous explanations for
> the environment based on poor-quality primitive
> analysis. I also wondered
> whether the evident poor performance in auditory
> scene analysis tasks and
> the schizophrenic symptoms could be due to a common
> cause (rather than, for
> instance, one causing the other).
> The examples quoted below - especially the sleep
> deprivation, could simply
> be temporary instantiations of the same sort of
> malfunction. For instance,
> people who are hung over, or in the middle of
> withdrawal symptoms (eg from
> cigarettes), very tired and so on, often report that
> sounds seem too loud;
> actually, on questioning, they often mean that
> events seem too close (it's
> intuitively obvious that "loud" and "close" could be
> conflated) - even "in
> the head" - they may often feel nervous, threatened.
> Patients with
> hyperacusis sometimes say something similar.
> Speculatively, these could all
> reflect something common.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Bregman" <bregman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 13 July 2005 22:16
> Subject: Auditory hallucinations
>
>
> > Dear Sukhi,
> >
> > I think there are two reasonably close analogs of
> schizophrenic
> > hallucinations:
> > 1.  Dreaming during normal sleep.
> > 2.  The hallucinations that one can induce in
> awake people via
> >         (a) long periods of sensory deprivation
> >         (b) depriving normal people of the
> opportunity to dream during
> > sleep
> >               by waking them up whenever they
> start to dream.
> >
> > For some time, I have entertained the idea that
> the hallucinations in
> > schizophrenics were a disorder of the normal
> dreaming mechanism.  Why
> don't
> > we dream during the day?  Some mechanism must
> suppress it.  Maybe this
> > suppression mechanism is defective in
> schizophrenics, or requires that
> > external events engage a much higher level of
> interest (or arousal) before
> > it kicks in.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Al
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Albert S. Bregman,
> > Emeritus Professor
> > Psychology Dept., McGill University
> > 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue
> > Montreal, Quebec
> > Canada  H3A 1B1
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> > Office:
> >      Voice: +1 (514) 398-6103
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