MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitFrom singing to arguing and watching a film to crossing a road, all are helped by a good sense of hearing. But can your ears can be fooled and what happens when your hearing gets damaged. Come along to get within ear shot of some amazing audio illusions, researchers and experiments. The Cambridge Science Centre […]
January 2013: Listen up! CBU researchers at the Science Museum in London
January 2013: Listen up! CBU researchers at the Science Museum in London What’s the difference between a bear and a pear? Knowing which one is hiding at the bottom of your fruit bowl is clearly important in everyday life! Being able to hear the small acoustic differences between spoken words is just as important. Listeners […]
Making sense of noisy speech
Adding subtitles is a well known way to make difficult to hear speech easier to understand – e.g. TV subtitles provide a huge benefit to hearing impaired individuals and are commonly added to interviews with heavily accented speakers of English. However, these subtitles don’t only help speech understanding, they also provide an illusion that the […]
