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John Henry McDermott

University of Manchester
Verified email at mft.nhs.uk
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Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system

JH McDermott, AJ Oxenham - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by
properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of …

Antioxidant nutrients: current dietary recommendations and research update

JH McDermott - Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association …, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective To review the importance of antioxidant nutrients in the maintenance of health and
the prevention and treatment of disease, with a focus on data pertaining to vitamin C, vitamin …

Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium Guideline for the Use of Aminoglycosides Based on MT‐RNR1 Genotype

JH McDermott, J Wolf, K Hoshitsuki… - Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aminoglycosides are widely used antibiotics with notable side effects, such as
nephrotoxicity, vestibulotoxicity, and sensorineural hearing loss (cochleotoxicity). MT‐RNR1 …

[PDF][PDF] A task-optimized neural network replicates human auditory behavior, predicts brain responses, and reveals a cortical processing hierarchy

AJE Kell, DLK Yamins, EN Shook… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
A core goal of auditory neuroscience is to build quantitative models that predict cortical
responses to natural sounds. Reasoning that a complete model of auditory cortex must solve …

Ambient sound provides supervision for visual learning

A Owens, J Wu, JH McDermott, WT Freeman… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2016 - Springer
The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars–sound conveys important
information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds …

[HTML][HTML] Headphone screening to facilitate web-based auditory experiments

KJP Woods, MH Siegel, J Traer… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2017 - Springer
Psychophysical experiments conducted remotely over the internet permit data collection
from large numbers of participants but sacrifice control over sound presentation and …

[PDF][PDF] Sound texture perception via statistics of the auditory periphery: evidence from sound synthesis

JH McDermott, EP Simoncelli - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
Rainstorms, insect swarms, and galloping horses produce" sound textures"—the collective
result of many similar acoustic events. Sound textures are distinguished by temporal …

Threedworld: A platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation

C Gan, J Schwartz, S Alter, D Mrowca… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation.
TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between …

[PDF][PDF] The cocktail party problem

JH McDermott - Current Biology, 2009 - cell.com
Natural auditory environments, be they cocktail parties or rain forests, contain many things
that concurrently make sounds. The cocktail party problem is the task of hearing a sound of …

[PDF][PDF] Distinct cortical pathways for music and speech revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition

S Norman-Haignere, NG Kanwisher, JH McDermott - neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The organization of human auditory cortex remains unresolved, due in part to the small
stimulus sets common to fMRI studies and the overlap of neural populations within voxels …