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Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech

open access: yeseLife, 2017
Efference copies refer to internal duplicates of movement-producing neural signals. Their primary function is to predict, and often suppress, the sensory consequences of willed movements.
Thomas J Whitford   +7 more
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Flexible unimodal density estimation in hidden Markov models

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are powerful tools for modelling time‐series data with underlying state structure. However, selecting appropriate parametric forms for the state‐dependent distributions is often challenging and can lead to model misspecification.
Jan‐Ole Fischer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

PHONETIC AND ALLOPHONIC TEXT PROCESSING IN BELARUSIAN AND RUSSIAN SPEECH SYNTHESIZER FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS

open access: yesInformatika, 2016
The article describes methods of «grapheme – phoneme» and «phoneme – allophone» conversions for Belarusian and Russian speech synthesis. For speech synthesizers on mobile platforms, the rule-based method has been selected.
Yu. S. Hetsevich   +2 more
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Alcohol consumption and cognitive function: A systematic review and dose–response meta‐analysis of 20 cohort studies

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Amid ongoing debate on whether low‐to‐moderate alcohol consumption reduces cardiovascular risk, studies examining the association between alcohol consumption and cognitive function have reported inconsistent results. To quantitatively assess this association, we conducted a dose–response meta‐analysis of cohort studies ...
Sooyeun Choi, Youjin Je
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional responses of Korean and Chinese women to Hangul phonemes to the gender of an artificial intelligence voice

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study aimed to explore the arousal and valence that people experience in response to Hangul phonemes based on the gender of an AI speaker through comparison with Korean and Chinese cultures.MethodsTo achieve this, 42 Hangul phonemes were
Min-Sun Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trajectories of leisure reading for children with literacy difficulties and the role of literacy support: Findings from the UK millennium cohort study

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Evidence suggests leisure reading may be especially important for children with reading difficulties. However, little is known about how their leisure reading evolves over time or how school‐based practices, including targeted literacy support, impact this.
Miriam McBreen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alternative Visual Units for an Optimized Phoneme-Based Lipreading System

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2019
Lipreading is understanding speech from observed lip movements. An observed series of lip motions is an ordered sequence of visual lip gestures. These gestures are commonly known, but as yet are not formally defined, as ‘visemes’.
Helen L. Bear, Richard Harvey
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Primary school students' achievement emotions in writing acquisition: Development of the AEQ‐WEES and links to students' writing competencies and social integration over time

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Acquiring writing skills poses not only cognitive but also emotional challenges for many primary school students. Although achievement emotions have received increasing research attention in recent years, little is known about how these emotions unfold during the process of writing acquisition and how they relate to both academic ...
Juliane Schlesier   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correcting automatically generated closed captions for online learning materials does not improve student learning outcomes (although students believe it does)

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Lecture capture is ubiquitous in higher education. Lecture capture recordings are typically accompanied by automatically generated closed captions that are sometimes corrected by humans. Students self‐report that they benefit from captions, and particularly human‐corrected captions.
Peter J. Allen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of the Word in the Model of Understanding

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019
A model of the meaning of a word is considered, which is traditionally (since the times of the Stoics) illustrated by a triangle. Recent advances in the understanding of the essence of the meaning of a word lead to a semantic trapezium as a model of the ...
Evgeny F. Kirov
doaj   +1 more source

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