Technical

技术核心将为以下项目提供实验室计算和工程支持： 儿童感知与沟通中心的初级研究人员， 研究编程和信号处理。建议的项目在儿童正常听力和 听力损失的儿童将解决听力，言语感知，语言 发育，前庭视觉信号处理，前庭和视觉功能的相互作用。的 技术核心的编程人员将支持刺激程序中的拟议实验 介绍和记录的声音，视觉和前庭相关的信号，并将协助 数据分析中的调查员。技术核心将开发视听核心设施， 通信研究使用人类受试者，这将使精确的实验控制， 听觉和视觉刺激的空间和时间变化。工作人员将包括建筑声学家 与初级研究人员就需要系统的实验的设计和解释进行磋商。 变化和/或测量房间声学效果。这个多用户视听室设施将 具有解决儿童通信研究理论的独特能力。技术 核心将作为熟练的程序员和工程师的创新资源，并将支持 研究人员在其视听核心设施的研究。

The Technical Core will deliver laboratory computing and engineering support to the projects of the junior investigators in the Center for Perception and Communication in Children through a staff skilled in research programming and signal processing. The proposed projects in children with normal hearing and children with hearing loss will address theories and experiments on hearing, speech perception, language development, auditory-visual signal processing, and interactions of vestibular and visual function. The programming staff of the Technical Core will support the proposed experiments in procedures for stimulus presentation and recording of acoustical, visual and vestibular-related signals, and will assist the investigators in data analyses. The Technical Core will develop an Auditory-Visual Core Facility for communications research using human subjects, which will enable precise experimental control over spatial and temporal variability in auditory and visual stimuli. The staff will include architectural acousticians to consult with junior investigators on the design and interpretation of experiments requiring the systematic variation and/or measurement of room acoustical effects. This multi-user auditory-visual room facility will have unique capabilities for addressing theories of communications research in children. The Technical Core will serve as an innovative resource of skilled programmers and engineers, and will support investigators' research in its Auditory-Visual Core Facility.