BLIP Lab is proud to be involved in an exciting upcoming symposium which brings the arts and the sciences together. If you are an artist, sound designer, sonic engineer, or researcher into acoustic perception, you should think about submitting to take part in this unique event in Singapore!

More information http://www.soundislands.com/si15

The 2nd International Symposium for Sound and Interactivity is an interdisciplinary symposium bringing together the science and art of sound. This unique event will showcase creative and scientific explorations into sound and interactivity, with a dynamic program of performances, installations and presentations of scientific research. This year’s theme is sound:senses, and welcomes projects bridging multisensory integration, cross-modal processing of sound, immersive sensory experience, and interactive work.

Psychologists, neuroscientists, artists, performers, and workers in the sonic arena are invited to submit.

Junior Researchers in the BLIP lab presented their work at the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair last week. They presented their work in a poster called ‘What does a Song Look Like?’ The poster contained results of three different experiments:

The students worked hard on their project as part of the Nanyang Research Programme, and they won a Merit Award from SSEF for their work.

At BLIP Lab, we don’t like to keep science boxed up in the University. That’s why BLIP Lab’s Asst Prof Suzy Styles gets involved in mentoring programmes for students in High School, JC and Poly. The projects are inspiring, and a lot of fun. The students bring new ideas to the lab, and we find ways of turning these ideas into testable experiments together.

This year, NUS High School of Math and Science awarded Suzy their Inspiring Mentor Award, for her work with student Emilea Teo. The award is for dedication in mentoring a student and nurturing their character.

The award was presented this week at NUS High School’s Research Congress – an event organized like a proper scientific conference, complete with presentations, a poster session, and demonstration tables. NUS High did a great job of showing students what it is like to attend a conference, and how it feels to present your work to other interested people.

Emilea presented a poster of her findings from her investigation into connections between vision and hearing, for both music, and sung language. Her work formed part of the NTU’s Nanyang Research Programme, which puts talented young scholars in contact with active researchers.

The findings from this research are super neat and we plan follow up on them soon!

BLIP Lab’s first online game has just gone live, investigating links between vision and hearing, the study created by Shang Nan, is called What do sounds look like?

Nan’s study will help us to understand whether people from all over the world really do make the same decisions about which kind of linguistic sounds go best with certain properties of the visual world. You can play it here.

11 Dec 2014

Research from the BLIP lab was presented at a workshop ‘Language and Cognitive Development in Mandarin Speaking Children’ hosted by the Bilingual Development Lab in the Division of Chinese Studies at NTU.

On the second day of the Workshop, Prof Styles presented a talk titled ‘Mandarin Tones: Language specific looking… and listening’, which included results of studies on Mandarin vowel sounds, including preliminary work from Shang Nan’s doctoral research.

4th Nov 2014