Patient Information about Epilepsy & Seizures. Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is a chronic neurological condition caused by abnormal brain cell activity. Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizuresâhaving one seizure does not necessarily mean that a person has epilepsy.
(1971) â¢ Discriminability was measured by an increase in sucking rate toa second speech sound after habituation to the first sound. â¢ Recovery from habituation was greater when the two stimuli were from different adult phonemiccategories than when they were from the same category. Eimas et al.1971) reported that infants, like adults, demonstrate categorical ppp p perception for speech sounds. To explain this they proposed that infants are equipped with innate, speech-specific, phoneticfeature detectors tuned to the range of phonetic contrasts used in the worldâs languages.
Furthermore, vision and touch exhibit similar strategies of active sensing (Ahissar and Arieli, 2001; Bach-y-Rita, 2002). These similarities between vision and touch enable exploitation of existing natural mechanisms in tactile substitutions for vision, an advantage that cannot be applied to hearing. This, together with other disadvantages of hearing as a substituting sense for vision (Hanneton et al., 2010; Kim and Zatorre, 2008; Tang and Beebe, 1998; Visell, 2009), make VTSenSub a natural choice.