This control is to be welcomed as it will strengthen the quality of evidence for a specific auditory training benefit.
Interestingly, the size of the cuing effect correlated with reports of vividness of mental imagery (Experiment 3): more vivid imagers showed the greatest auditory cuing benefits.
An important finding, which is incorporated in more recent models and which is relevant for "cocktail-party" conditions, is that the auditory system benefits considerably from the fact that we have two ears.
If nothing else, auditory learners will benefit from the reduction in auditory distractions that plague the modern open office space.
We conclude that properly designed auditory displays may benefit anaesthetists in achieving greater patient situation awareness and that designers should consider carefully how factors promoting and inhibiting tailoring will affect the end-users' likelihood of conducting tailoring.
By the same reasoning, it is also unlikely that learning acquired in peripheral auditory processing could benefit a visual timing processes located at a featurally non-specific stage of visual processing.
Auditory-verbal stimuli benefit more from automatically-activated echoic memory more than visual stimuli benefit from iconic memory (Darwin, Turvey, & Crowder, 1972), and the results of Saults and Cowan appear to confirm this.
This leaves open questions about the nature of any translational benefit of auditory training for tinnitus, and whether any benefits are specific to auditory training.
The benefit of auditory models for solving three music recognition tasks—onset detection, pitch estimation, and instrument recognition is analyzed.
This means that in such a situation, the user could, in addition to the benefit from auditory release from masking (that also improves speech intelligibility), also benefit from the microphone array processing.
