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binaural

[bī′nȯr·əl]

(acoustics)

Pertaining to sound that reaches the listener over two paths, to give the effect of auditory perspective.

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Firstly, this article investigates the affective employment of binaural microphones in Bad Boy Bubby and examines how this technology crafts the aurator's journey.

Sonic affect(s): binaural technologies & the construction of auratorship in Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby

After extensive testing in the lab, Johnson and his associates take their binaural head out to the test track and put it in a real car.

No breaks for noise

The desirable angular separation of the arms of a binaural array and a possible trading of coverage and resolving power are important concerns for the design of an array.

Accuracy of pointing a binaural listening array

Sabe-se que, quando existe a perda auditiva em ambas as orelhas, o uso binaural das proteses auditivas e geralmente indicado [6,7], pois muitas sao as vantagens da audicao binaural, entre elas melhor localizacao da fonte sonora, somacao binaural, eliminacao do efeito sombra da cabeca, habilidade de separar os sons dos ruidos ambientais e melhor reconhecimento de fala na presenca de ruido [7].

Performance of elderly adults with binaural vs. monaural fitting in speech tests in silence and in noise/Desempenho de idosos com adaptacao binaural x monoaural em testes de fala no silencio e no ruido

I don't know how many will come forward as I don't know how much of a problem it is yet, but I am aware of people using these types of binaural sounds and images to alternate the brain.

New trend: Drugs of a digital nature

When the brain is in synchronicity, there's more focus," says Carol Moore, marketing director of Monroe Products, which makes Hemi-Sync verbal meditations and music that contain embedded binaural beats.

A wave of relief

With a lightweight design, the VXi Passport 21V binaural single-wire headset incorporates the sound quality and durability of the Passport 20 and has a single-wire design, which allows for greater range of motion.

VXi Corporation

Algorithms ranging from dynamic-range compression and directional microphones to sound classifications and binaural noise suppression are explained, providing a comprehensive explanation of signal processing approaches used in modern digital hearing aids.

Digital hearing aids

Electronystagmography (ENG) revealed a direction-changing positional nystagmus, a 35% reduced vestibular response (RVR) left on alternate binaural bithermal caloric testing, and a type 2 response that revealed the RVR left on simultaneous binaural bithermal testing (figure 1).

ENG, sinusoidal vertical-axis rotation testing, and MRI in a patient with disequilibrium and nausea

For greater amplification o binaural set (left and right ear) is recommended but nut necessary.

Digital ITC: Walker's Game Ear

In a sense, the walks supplement Surrealism's engagement with photography and film--its confrontation of the uncanny dimension of mechanical reproduction--with a post-'60s attentiveness to the embodiment of her spectators (achieved in part through the astonishingly realistic trompes d'oreilles Cardiff generates with binaural recording).

Janet Cardiff: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

Finally, there was a suggestive tendency for sessions with the binaural beat tape to yield higher ESP scores (p = .