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sabato 1 marzo 2025
# behav: locomotion-dependent auditory gating to the parietal cortex guides multisensory decisions
martedì 28 gennaio 2025
# gst: tuning to the edge of instability (in the cochlea)
sabato 25 gennaio 2025
# life: the Age of hallucinatory artificial intelligence (AI); the beginning.
mercoledì 10 aprile 2024
# gst: exploring the on-demand dynamical generation of a plethora of dispersive shock waves arising in attractive one-dimensional droplet-bearing environment.
sabato 15 luglio 2023
# brain: the sense of hearing, the sense of silence.
venerdì 14 aprile 2023
# gst: even a single bubble can produce creative musical outcomes
sabato 25 giugno 2022
# astro: eight new echoing black hole binaries (in Milky Way)
mercoledì 6 aprile 2022
# astro: going beyond a performance by Frank Zappa (or a speech by – for example – a political entity), two speeds of sound found on Mars
venerdì 25 febbraio 2022
# life; apropos of mechanic (not metamechanic) convergence, a case of extreme #ctz behavior, the 'Iron Curtain'.
martedì 11 gennaio 2022
# gst: apropos of discomfort tolerances, maximize a sweet spot (of a sound zone)
giovedì 12 agosto 2021
# brain: brain images of silence
mercoledì 5 maggio 2021
# gst: when and how a levitating droplet sings (as a pipe)
venerdì 16 aprile 2021
# life: non-human jazz from vibrant cobweb strings performed by a harp-like instrument
sabato 6 febbraio 2021
# gst: doubling phonons by subtraction of one of them (in an optical whispering-gallery microresonator)
venerdì 28 agosto 2020
# gst: self-assembly of chemistry with music
mercoledì 29 luglio 2020
# gst: controlling particles with sound waves
giovedì 5 marzo 2020
# gst: the sounds that occur when a soap bubble pops.
sabato 5 ottobre 2019
# evol: echolocation, a prime example of convergent evolution
<< Echolocation is a prime example of convergent evolution, the independent gain of similar features in species of different lineages. >>
<< Distantly related species entering similar biological niches often adapt by evolving similar morphological and physiological characters. How much genomic molecular convergence (particularly of highly constrained coding sequence) contributes to convergent phenotypic evolution, such as echolocation in bats and whales, is a long-standing fundamental question. >>
AA << find that the gene set most overrepresented (q-value = 2.2e-3) with convergent substitutions in echolocators, affecting 18 genes, regulates development of the cochlear ganglion, a structure with empirically supported relevance to echolocation. >>
Amir Marcovitz, Yatish Turakhia, et al. A functional enrichment test for molecular convergent evolution finds a clear protein-coding signal in echolocating bats and whales.
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1818532116 Sep 30, 2019 https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/27/1818532116
Krista Conger. Scientists uncover genetic similarities among species that use sound to navigate. Stanford University Medical Center. Oct 4, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-uncover-genetic-similarities-species.html
venerdì 17 maggio 2019
# sec: adversarial audio attacks; small sound perturbations to hack a Machine Learning model and remedies
<< Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. >>
Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich. A Robust Approach for Securing Audio Classification Against Adversarial Attacks. arXiv:1904.10990 [cs.LG] Apr 24, 2019.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10990
Ingrid Fadelli. An approach for securing audio classification against adversarial attacks. May 7, 2019.
https://m.techxplore.com/news/2019-05-approach-audio-classification-adversarial.html
sabato 9 febbraio 2019
# gst: (you must) read the noise as a message
<< Noise is often thought to be a nuisance with negative consequences, (..) But through this study we show that noise can actually be used as a salient informational cue. It can provide individuals with important information about their environment and when it's safe to hunt. >> Inga Geipel
When does noise become a message? Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Feb 6, 2019.
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-02-noise-message.html
<< Background noise can have strong negative consequences for animals, reducing individual fitness by masking communication signals, impeding prey detection and increasing predation risk. While the negative impacts of noise across taxa have been well documented, the use of noise as an informational cue, providing animals with reliable information on environmental conditions, has been less well studied. >>
Inga Geipel, Marcus J. Smeekes, et al. Noise as an informational cue for decision-making: the sound of rain delays bat emergence. Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb192005 doi: 10.1242/jeb.192005 Feb 1, 2019.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/3/jeb192005
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