The Vanity of Words (1986, for computer processed vocal sounds)
Dr. Norris became fascinated with dolphins' well-developed ability to process sounds.
Language-impaired children cannot process sounds in that 40-millisecond time window, she said, and thus cannot hear the difference between "ba" and "da."
The nervous system combines all early reflections into a single perceptual whole allowing the brain to process multiple different sounds at once.
In cases where unilateral damage to the left superior temporal lobe has been documented, patients exhibited problems processing both speech and non-speech sounds (in other words, not typical of auditory verbal agnosia).
Neurons within the ear respond to simple tones, and the brain serves to process other increasingly complex sounds.
As neuroscientists like to point out, the brain processes sights and sounds, including threatening ones, in milliseconds, while the simplest thought takes full seconds to develop.
DSPs can process multiple sounds, or channels, simultaneously.
The group also took turns processing sounds through various effects, such as a Roland SH-2 synthesizer and a vocoder.
Unix and similar programs are the rule books by which computers process the numbers, words, sounds and images fed into them.