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Stop Eating and Start Moving: One Switch Does Both

At its most elemental level, a behavior is a series of coordinated muscle contractions that accomplishes some goal. Those contractions are driven by motor neurons, whose firing is controlled by ‘‘central pattern generators,’’ suites of central nervous system neurons functionally linked to generate simple motor outputs, such as chewing, swallowing, or breathing. Switching between behaviors requi...

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Closure duration analysis of incomplete stop consonants due to stop-stop interaction.

An incomplete stop consonant is characterized either by an indistinguishable closure or a missing burst. If an incomplete stop happens due to a stop following another stop [stop-stop interaction (SSI)], its acoustics typically resemble that of a complete stop-one closure followed by a single burst. As a consequence, stop detectors would fail to distinguish an SSI from a complete stop. Analysis ...

Perception of French stop bursts, implications for stop identification

An experiment is presented here concerning perception of release bursts in a corpus of natural tokens of French /p,t,k/ in CV context. The focus of the study was the perceptual role of spectral characteristics of the release burst; therefore tokens have the same duration of nearly 25 ms so that neither VOT nor formant transitions may innuence listeners. Two training sessions appeared to be nece...

STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigm.

The stop-signal paradigm is a useful tool for the investigation of response inhibition. In this paradigm, subjects are instructed to respond as fast as possible to a stimulus unless a stop signal is presented after a variable delay. However, programming the stop-signal task is typically considered to be difficult. To overcome this issue, we present software called STOP-IT, for running the stop-...