In other words, congenitally deaf patients develop many abilities to reach an adequate communication condition (lip-reading, visual reinforcement) that, when auditory function has recovered, work in synergy with auditory inputs, enhancing perceptual and visual skills; an analogous process is similar in visually impaired patients who develop, more than normal, auditory and olfactory skills [ 2].
We designed a spatial audiovisual conflict task with simultaneous target and cross-modal distractor to evaluate the N270 sensitivity to the conflict strength (i.e., visual target with auditory distractor or auditory target with visual distractor) and the load in working memory (goal task maintenance with frequent change in the target modality).
If Joan wasn't schizophrenic, she had "idiopathic partial epilepsy with auditory features".
AV, visual with simultaneous auditory; V50A, visual with auditory delayed by 50 ms; V100A, visual with auditory delayed by 100 ms; V150A, visual with auditory delayed by 150 ms; A50V, auditory with visual delayed by 50 ms; A100V, auditory with visual delayed by 100 ms; A150V, auditory with visual delayed by 150 ms.
The results are discussed in terms of previous work in auditory attention and previous approaches to auditory local global processing.
Four types of sensory cues were employed: simple visual cues, auditory cues, visual cues with auditory distracters, and auditory cues with visual distracters.
Music helps with auditory stimulation, so another choice might be a music box.
The work implicates auditory cortex gamma-band oscillations as a fundamental intrinsic mechanism for attenuating phantom auditory perception.
In [22], Lyon proposed a machine-hearing algorithm structure, which first converts the one-dimensional sound into a two-dimensional auditory image and then extracts features from the image to work with a following trainable classifier or decision module.
In this paradigm, the author used spatial and auditory items working with different stores (visual-spatial sketchpad and phonological loop) whereas, in our study, we used visual stimuli (color and shape) to work only with the visuospatial sketchpad.
