When the visual channel is not available, these results suggest that tactile cues presented via a mobile device should be augmented with auditory feedback.
In the third condition, the dynamic soundscape was augmented with auditory simulation of ego-motion obtained by having subjects generating in real-time footsteps of themselves walking in the garden.
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Auditory deprivation and augmented sound exposure can each perturb the maturation of neural computations as well as their underlying synaptic properties.
Our findings suggest that auditory cortex gamma oscillations are not generators of tinnitus, but rather an intrinsic control mechanism that exerts tonic suppression of the phantom auditory percept, and might be augmented to therapeutic effect.
Over the following 18 years, the patient has been maintained with clozapine (100 150 mg/die), augmented with small doses of haloperidol to counteract the occasional reemergence of auditory hallucinations.
This work demonstrates that, following early auditory deprivation, visual attention resources toward the periphery slowly get augmented to eventually result in a clear behavioral advantage by pre-adolescence on a selective visual attention task.
