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Central Auditory Processing: From Diagnosis to Rehabilitation
Published in Stavros Hatzopoulos, Andrea Ciorba, Mark Krumm, Advances in Audiology and Hearing Science, 2020
Maria Isabel Ramos do Amaral, Leticia Reis Borges, Maria Francisca Colella-Santos
Repeat all these activities by embedding background noise in order to rehab the figure ground ability. The noise presentation should be graduated in difficulty. Beginning with white noise then instrumental songs and the challenge one is noise with speech (e.g., music, people talking).
Perceptual-cognitive development and cognition of movement
Published in Michael Horvat, Ronald V. Croce, Caterina Pesce, Ashley Fallaize, Developmental and Adapted Physical Education, 2019
Michael Horvat, Ronald V. Croce, Caterina Pesce, Ashley Fallaize
Figure-ground perception is the ability to extract relevant detail from contexts (object of visual regard) that contain irrelevant or distracting information (visual surroundings). Often, visually oriented combinations containing a maximum amount of blending and distraction are the most disruptive when the individual attempts to distinguish a figure from its background. According to Gallahue et al. (2012), maturity in this ability also involves elements of attention. In conjunction with visual acuity, visual figure-ground perception enables a performer to clearly distinguish an object and to separate it from its surroundings. Clearly, such a skill is integral not only for performing physical skills, but also for obtaining vital feedback on performance.
Through Johari’s window
Published in Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Iona Heath, The Inner Physician, 2018
Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Iona Heath
Coming up with possible diagnoses is an example of the ‘figure-ground’ phenomenon, where the task for our perceptual mechanism is to distinguish what is meaningful from its irrelevant background. At first sight, Figure 10.1 is just a scattering of random splodges.142 However, if you know there are such things as Dalmatian dogs, the chances are that you’ll quickly recognise that this is a picture of one. But you have to know about Dalmatians (or at least dogs) in the first place, otherwise you’ll never see it. And once you’ve seen it (Figure 10.2), you will never be able to not see it; indeed, you’ll wonder why it isn’t obvious to everyone.
Impact of Alzheimer’s Disease in Ocular Motility and Visual Perception: A Narrative Review
Published in Seminars in Ophthalmology, 2022
As previously mentioned, an uncommon and incompletely understood visuospatial defect that can be present in AD is Balint’s syndrome.81,82 This syndrome is characterized by the presence of simultanagnosia (difficulty in locating, reaching, or attending to multiple items in a visual space), ocular motor apraxia (inability to maintain fixation on a specific point located in the peripheral visual field), and optic ataxia (inappropriate coordination of voluntary movements in response to a visual stimulus).82 Furthermore, other visual disturbances, such as difficulties in searching for objects (figure–ground discrimination), in finding the correct way in familiar surroundings (environmental agnosia),63 or in spatial recognition or spatial order memory (spatial agnosia),73 have also been described in patients with AD. Likewise, significant limitations in visual attention have been reported leading to problems in the development of daily life activities.59
Visual-perceptual function of children using the developmental test of visual perception-3
Published in Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2022
A Valarmathi, Kalpana Suresh, Lakshmi Venkatesh, Santhanam T
Motor reduced visual perception was assessed using three subtests. Figure-ground describes how a visual scene is simplified and perceived when children are required to detect figures against confusing backgrounds.12 Children in the study population performed significantly lower in comparison to the normed population on figure-ground perception skills. According to Nisbett and Miyamoto,22 Westerners typically follow an analytical style, whereas East Asians follow holistic style. As a result, Westerners are more focused and place less emphasis on background or context information, whereas East Asians attend to the relationship between objects and context information in a visual scene.22 This difference in processing style may contribute to the difference in performance on visual figure-ground between the two groups of children.
An exploration of higher-level language comprehension deficits and factors influencing them following blast TBI in US veterans
Published in Brain Injury, 2020
Judith R. Koebli, Venugopal Balasubramanian, Genevieve Pinto Zipp
Tun, Williams, Small, & Hafter (12) completed a literature review on the effects of aging on auditory processing and cognition. These authors report how speech places a significant weight on attention and working memory, because in real-time words are spoken at a rapid rate of 120 to 180 words per minute. This places tremendous stress on attention and memory because the listener cannot go back to re-play the speakers words, the listener must attend to the speech signals so as to encode the auditory signals, access lexical items, syntax, and semantic operations, all while holding onto previous information in the memory system. Declines in these areas are correlated to subjects' increased difficulty with listening with background noise, which then may lead to the decline in quality of life activities, such as giving up social activities. Our subjects’ difficulty on the Trail Making Test AB (39) demonstrate a weakness with attention and processing speed. Based on the literature one of the factors is the possibility that the weakness in attention precipitated the weakness in auditory figure-ground, time-compressed sentences and inferencing. Again, these findings support frontal lobe involvement, typical of mTBI subjects.