Subject: 3D audio positions avail? From: Scott Hildebrand <klezmer41(at)YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:01:35 -0700I 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 --- Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA> wrote: > There are 2 messages totalling 136 lines in this > issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. R-SPIN > 2. Auditory hallucinations > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:04:17 -0400 > From: "Scharine, Angelique (Civ,ARL/HRED)" > <AScharine(at)ARL.ARMY.MIL> > 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. > Army Research Lab/HRED > AMSRD-ARL-HR-SD > Building 520 > Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD > 21005-5425 > > Office: (410) 278-5957 > DSN: 298-5957 > Fax: (410) 278-3587 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:53:20 +0100 > From: Peter Lennox > <peter(at)LENNOX01.FREESERVE.CO.UK> > 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(at)HEBB.PSYCH.MCGILL.CA> > To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA> > 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 > > > > Office: > > Voice: +1 (514) 398-6103 > > Fax: +1 (514) 398-4896 > > --------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.14/48 - > Release Date: 13/07/05 > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.14/48 - > Release Date: 13/07/05 > > ------------------------------ > > End of AUDITORY Digest - 13 Jul 2005 to 14 Jul 2005 > (#2005-139) > *************************************************************** > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs