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Infants' brain responses for speech sound changes in fast multifeature MMN paradigm.
2013
Abstract Objective We investigated whether newborn speech-sound discrimination can be studied in 40min using fast multifeature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm and do the results differ from those obtained with the traditional oddball paradigm. Methods Newborns' MMN responses to five types of changes (consonant identity, F0, intensity, vowel duration and vowel identity) were recorded in the multifeature group ( N =15) and vowel duration and vowel identity changes in the oddball group ( N =13), after which the MMNs from both groups were compared with each others. Results Statistically significant MMNs in the 190–600ms time range from the stimulus onset were found for most change types in b…
Does conal prime CANAL more than cinal? Masked phonological priming effects in Spanish with the lexical decision task.
2005
Evidence for an early involvement of phonology in word identification usually relies on the comparison between a target word preceded by a homophonic prime and an orthographic control (rait-RATE vs. raut-RATE). This comparison rests on the assumption that the two control primes are equally orthographically similar to the target. Here, we tested for phonological effects with a masked priming paradigm in which orthographic similarity between priming conditions was perfectly controlled at the letter level and in which identification of the prime was virtually at chance for both stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) (66 and 50 msec). In the key prime-target pairs, each prime differed from the targ…
Syllable onsets are perceptual reading units
2007
Syllable onsets are defined as the initial consonant or consonant cluster in a syllable (e.g., BR in BREAD). In the present study, using a letter detection paradigm and French words, we tested whether syllable onsets are processed as units by the reading system. In Experiment 1, we replicated Gross, Treiman, and Inman's (2000) result of observing no difference between the detection latencies of letters embedded in a multi-letter syllable onset (e.g., c in ECLATER) relative to a single-letter syllable onset (e.g., C in ECARTER). In Experiment 2, participants took longer to detect the target letter when it was in the second position of a multi-letter onset (e.g., L in TABLIER) than when it wa…
Streaming: ventajas, desafíos y oportunidades de las radiotelevisiones para captar audiencias
2021
La investigación muestra el crecimiento del consumo de streaming en los últimos años y refleja su incremento exponencial a raíz de la pandemia por la Covid 19 en 2020. La base científica cita a los autores más relevantes en esta temática y está avalada por los estudios e informes de organismos oficiales y privados de relevancia internacional. Se estudia el origen del streaming, su evolución y futuro con la ayuda de las nuevas herramientas tecnológicas, como las appsque permiten a los periodistas y al público poder entrar en directo en un informativo. Ello suponenuevas oportunidades de negocio para las radiotelevisiones generalistas creadoras de contenido en España. La investigación muestra …
Elena+ care for COVID-19, a pandemic lifestyle care intervention : intervention design and study protocol
2021
Background: The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain indoors for prolonged periods to tackle the virus. In this new context, individuals' health-promoting routines are under greater strain, contributing to poorer mental and physical health. Additionally, individuals are required to keep up to date with latest health guidelines about the virus, which may be confusing in an age of social-media disinformation and shifting guidelines. To tackle these factors, we developed Elena+, a smartphone-based and conversational agent (CA) delivered pandemic lifestyle care intervention. Methods: Elena+ utilizes varie…
Impact of a stay in the intensive care unit on the preparation of Advance Directives: Descriptive, exploratory, qualitative study.
2017
Abstract Background Our objective was to assess, through a qualitative, exploratory study, the thought processes of patients regarding the formulation of advance directives (AD) after a stay in the ICU. Methods The study was conducted from May to July 2016 using telephone interviews performed by four senior ICU physicians. Inclusion criteria were: patients discharged from ICU to home > 3 months earlier. Semi-directive interviews with patients focused on 5 main points surrounding AD. Results In total, among 159 eligible patients, data from 94 (59%) were available for analysis. Among all those interviewed, 83.5% had never heard of “advance directives”. Only 2% had executed AD before ICU admis…
Bone Fusion in Normal and Pathological Development is Constrained by the Network Architecture of the Human Skull
2016
The premature fusion of cranial bones, craniosynostosis, affects the correct development of the skull producing morphological malformations in newborns. To assess the susceptibility of each craniofacial articulation to close prematurely, we used a network model of the skull to quantify the link reliability (an index based on stochastic block modeling and Bayesian inference) of each articulation. We show that, of the 93 human skull articulations at birth, the few articulations that are associated with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis conditions have statistically significant lower reliability scores than the others. In a similar way, articulations that close during the normal postnatal developm…
French-speaking universities in sub-Saharan Africa
1991
Administrators of French-speaking sub-saharan African universties are faced with a crule dilemna : with the passing years, their dwindling budgets have made it increasingly difficult for them to guarantee the proper functionning of their etablishments ; hence a decline in the level of competence of graduates and in research standards. At the same time, some studies show that unit costs are too high ant that higher education receives an inordinate amount of educational funding. They recommend that the squeeze on university budgets be sustained and tightened.The prmary aim of this article is to provide evidence to support these two seemingly contradictory assessments. It is true that while Fr…
La crise des universités francophones en Afrique sub-saharienne
1991
International audience; Les responsables des universités francophones en Afrique subsaharienne sont confrontés à un cruel dilemne : au fil des années, leur budget leur permet de moins en moins d'assurer un fonctionnement décent de leur établissement, d'où une baisse de la qualité des diplômés et de la recherche ; dans le même temps, un certain nombre d'études montrent que les coûts unitaires y sont trop élevés, que l'enseignement supérieur reçoit une proportion trop forte des crédits d'éducation et que la cure d'amaigrissement de leur budget doit être prolongée et accentuée. L'objectif de cet article est d'abord de confirmer, par des données, les énoncés de ces deux diagnostics apparemment …
أزمة الجامعات الفرنكوفونية في أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء
1991
International audience; Les responsables des universités francophones en Afrique subsaharienne sont confrontés à un cruel dilemne : au fil des années, leur budget leur permet de moins en moins d'assurer un fonctionnement décent de leur établissement, d'où une baisse de la qualité des diplômés et de la recherche ; dans le même temps, un certain nombre d'études montrent que les coûts unitaires y sont trop élevés, que l'enseignement supérieur reçoit une proportion trop forte des crédits d'éducation et que la cure d'amaigrissement de leur budget doit être prolongée et accentuée. L'objectif de cet article est d'abord de confirmer, par des données, les énoncés de ces deux diagnostics apparemment …