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Heschl's gyrus is more sensitive to tone level than non-primary auditory cortex [PDF]
, 2002 Previous neuroimaging studies generally demonstrate a growth in the cortical response with an increase in sound level. However, the details of the shape and topographic location of such growth remain largely unknown.
Alan R Palmer +66 more
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Caring through Sound and Silence: Technology and the Sound of Everyday Life in Homes for the Elderly
Anthropology & Aging, 2020 Literature on sounds inside institutions has shown that sounds are indispensable to the working of hospitals, schools, prisons, and other institutional environments.
Carla Greubel
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Auditory perception modulated by word reading [PDF]
, 2016 Theories of embodied cognition positing that sensorimotor areas are indispensable during language comprehension are supported by neuroimaging and behavioural studies.
Biermann-Ruben, Katja +4 more
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Media and Communication, 2016 Professionals in the television industry are working towards a certain future—rather than end—for the medium based on multi-platform storytelling, as well as multiple screens, distribution channels and streaming platforms.
Berber Hagedoorn, Bas Agterberg
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‘What could be Feminist about Sound Studies?’: (in)Audibility in Young Children’s Soundwalking
Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019 Sound methods, including soundwalking, are increasingly being used across the humanities and social sciences. Yet, while scholars are drawn to such methods for their potential to disrupt the ocular-centrism of Euro-Western knowledge frames, the ...
D. Shannon
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Relationships between human auditory cortical structure and function [PDF]
, 2003 The human auditory cortex comprises multiple areas, largely distributed across the supratemporal plane, but the precise number and configuration of auditory areas and their functional significance have not yet been clearly established.
Hall, DA, Hart, HC, Johnsrude, IS
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Whiteness and the Ontological Turn in Sound Studies
, 2017 In this article, I consider how the revived interest in ontology within sonic theory connects to questions of race. Symptomatic of a broader ‘turn’ to ontology in critical thought, the (re)turn to ontology in sound studies is predicated on an ‘origin ...
Marie Thompson
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Sound + Bodies in Community = Music
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2020 The analytical framework of sound studies is transforming our understanding of the political force of music. Following the lead of scholars like Nina Eidsheim and Salomé Voegelin, this essay considers the resonating force of listening bodies as a ...
Barry L. Shank
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“Befo’ de Wah”: Sounding Out Ill-Legibility in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories
Humanities, 2022 In 1969, blues guitarist Earl Hooker released Two Bugs and a Roach, solidifying him as a pioneer of the wah-wah technique. Before the wah-wah pedal, however, there was Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories, a collection of frame narratives that recollect
Cameron MacDonald
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Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2020 This piece explores writing on historical acoustemology. It charts the emergence of the field, identifies its strengths and weaknesses, and calls for greater critical engagement amongst its practitioners.
Mark M. Smith
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