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Common variance in amplitude envelope perception tasks and their impact on phoneme duration perception and reading and spelling in Finnish children w…

2009

ABSTRACTOur goal was to investigate auditory and speech perception abilities of children with and without reading disability (RD) and associations between auditory, speech perception, reading, and spelling skills. Participants were 9-year-old, Finnish-speaking children with RD (N = 30) and typically reading children (N = 30). Results showed significant group differences between the groups in phoneme duration discrimination but not in perception of amplitude modulation and rise time. Correlations among rise time discrimination, phoneme duration, and spelling accuracy were found for children with RD. Those children with poor rise time discrimination were also poor in phoneme duration discrimi…

Neural Processing of Congruent and Incongruent Audiovisual Speech in School-Age Children and Adults

2017

Audiovisual speech perception in children with developmental language disorder in degraded listening conditions.

2013

Purpose The effect of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the perception of audiovisual speech in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) was investigated by varying the noise level and the sound intensity of acoustic speech. The main hypotheses were that the McGurk effect (in which incongruent visual speech alters the auditory speech percept) would be weaker for children with DLD than for controls and that it would get stronger with decreasing SNR in both groups. Method The participants were 8-year-old children with DLD and a sample of children with normal language development. In the McGurk stimuli, the consonant uttered by the voice differed from that articulated …

An investigation of prototypical and atypical within-category vowels and non-speech analogues on cortical auditory evoked related potentials (AERPs) …

2011

The present study examined cortical auditory evoked related potentials (AERPs) for the P1-N250 and MMN components in children 9 years of age. The first goal was to investigate whether AERPs respond differentially to vowels and complex tones, and the second goal was to explore how prototypical language formant structures might be reflected in these early auditory processing stages. Stimuli were two synthetic within-category vowels (/y/), one of which was preferred by adult German listeners ("prototypical-vowel"), and analogous complex tones. P1 strongly distinguished vowels from tones, revealing larger amplitudes for the more difficult to discriminate but phonetically richer vowel stimuli. P…

Sekundäre Prädikation durch Adjektive: auch ein Beitrag zur Syntax und Semantik der ‚Aus-gliederung‘ im Deutschen

2010

Manuscrit de 12 pages; Dieser Beitrag ist der Frage gewidmet, ob die in der romanistischen Linguistik gängige Beschreibung bestimmter Elemente als syntaktisch ausgegliedert („détaché“) und – unter logisch-semantischer Perspektive – als „sekundär prädiziert“ auch für das Deutsche zutreffend ist. Trotz der Vorgabe der „stylistique comparée“, französische Appositionen im Deutschen durch Subjunktion oder Koordination wiederzugeben und umgekehrt, wird im vorliegenden Aufsatz der Nachweis angetreten, dass Ausgliederungen mit der Funktion sekundärer Prädikation keineswegs allein dem Französischen vorbehalten sind. Allerdings bleibt diesbezüglich eine Reihe von Fragen zu beantworten, beispielsweise…

Semantic Verbal Fluency in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with Chronological Age and IQ

2016

We administered a semantic verbal fluency (SVF) task to two groups of children (age range from 5 to 8): 47 diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD Group) and 53 with typical development (Comparison Group), matched on gender, chronological age, and non-verbal IQ. Four specific indexes were calculated from the SVF task, reflecting the different underlying cognitive strategies used: clustering (component of generativity and lexical-semantic access), and switching (executive component, cognitive flexibility). First, we compared the performance of the two groups on the different SVF task indicators, with the ASD group scoring lower than the Comparison Group, although the difference was grea…

Architectures for autism

2015

Le ricerche condotte sulle malattie degenerative della "terza età", hanno visto negli ultimi anni il gruppo di studio palermitano indagare e proporre soluzioni che vanno dalla stesura di linee guida per la progettazione di Residenze Sanitarie Assistenziali (RSA), alla progettazione esecutiva di architetture residenziali, al recupero e riuso di edilizia già esistente fino alla progettazione dello spazio domestico dedicato e protetto, che oltre a fornire risposte funzionali ne ha anche esaltato il design degli elementi di arredo. A questo ambito di ricerca da circa due anni si è affiancato un nuovo settore di indagine indirizzato sempre alle "minoranze sociali". Research conducted on degenera…

La scrittura autobiografica come strumento di riflessione

2014

Storie linguistiche personali e familiari. Prima ricognizione su un corpus di biografie di studenti palermitani

2009

Il contributo illustra, attraverso una ricognizione originale e l'analisi di un ampio corpus di autobiografie di studenti, la percezione e l'autorappresentazione linguistica nella Sicilia di oggi. Ne emergono politiche linguistiche familiari e percorsi generazionali che, inaspettatamente, non escludono il dialetto dai codici attivamente particati.

Prey-predator strategies in a multiagent system

2006

This paper describes the prey-predator multiagent system which can be considered as an abstraction of more complex real-world models. Both the prey and the predators are considered as autonomous agents with their own behaviors and perception of the environment. In particular, we propose a simulator which lets study different strategies such as cooperation and individualism. An extensive experiment has been carried out in order to prove the effectiveness of the latter.