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[AUDITORY] Special journal issue - Auditory and visual scene analysis
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to announce the publication of:
Auditory and visual scene analysis
A theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
compiled and edited by Hirohito M. Kondo, Jun-Ichiro Kawahara, Anouk
M. van Loon and Brian C.J. Moore
Published 02 January 2017
Imagine you are walking on a big busy square. Cars are crossing,
pedestrians are walking past and towards you, you hear people chatting, a
taxi-driver shouting, and you notice a beautiful coloured tree. Our brain
is very well equipped to rapidly convert such a mixture of sensory inputs
? both visual and auditory ? into coherent scenes so as to perceive
meaningful objects and guide our navigation. This raises important
questions regarding where and how 'scene analysis' is performed in the
brain. Recent advances from both auditory and visual research suggest
that the brain does not simply process the incoming scene properties.
Rather, top-down processes such as attention, expectations, and prior
knowledge facilitate scene perception. This special issue covers novel
advances in scene-analysis research obtained using a combination of
psychophysics, computational modelling, neuroimaging, and
neurophysiology, and presents new empirical and theoretical approaches.
Moreover, this issue bridges the gap between sensory modalities by
addressing both auditory and visual scene analysis, and includes studies
of different species and of individual differences in humans.
Read the issue online at
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/1714. The
Introduction is free to access.
Best wishes,
Brian Moore
Brian C. J. Moore, Ph.D, Dr. h.c., FMedSci, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception,
Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3EB,
UK
Tel. +44 (0) 1223 333574
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