People who are visually impaired will often use a cane to feel out their surroundings. With training and practice, people can learn to use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes from the cane or ...

A new study offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Researchers have used mathematical models based on experiments in both animals and humans to accurately predict sound source ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 349-368 (20 pages) Between the ages of 5 and 10, children gain skill in focusing expectancies and attention. We asked ...