Yes-No answers have traditionally posed major difficulties in speech recognition: the amount of signal is too short and may lead to mis-recognition. We think that the speech signal itself, that is, intonation (F0 and energy) are not enough to fulfil this task. When the information the signal can provide is so little, we must look for other sources. This paper analyzes intonation and gestures to...

Even if only the acoustic channel is considered, human communication is highly multi-modal. Non-lexical cues provide a variety of information such as emotion or agreement. The ability to process such cues is highly relevant for spoken dialog systems, especially in assistance systems. In this paper, we focus on the recognition of non-lexical confirmations such as ”mhm”, as they enhance the syste...

Lexical decisions for lowand high-frequency words are equally facilitated by masked repetition priming, whereas nonwords typically show no effect of such priming. This pattern of results has been used to argue against an episodic account of masked priming and in favor of a lexical account in which the prime opens the lexical entry of the upcoming target. We propose that an episodic account can ...

Damage to the left or the right hemisphere can result in qualitatively and quantitatively different patterns of behavioural impairment. Damage to the right hemisphere, for example, frequently results in neglect, characterised by inattention to the contralesional side of space: this outcome is less frequent following left hemisphere damage. However, the type of stimulus to which the neglect pati...

Current models of word reading differ in their descriptions of how print-to-sound conversion is performed. Whereas a parallel procedure is generally assumed, the dual-route cascaded model developed by Coltheart and colleagues (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, and Ziegler, 2001) holds that the nonlexical conversion operates letter by letter, serially from left to right. An interesting aspect o...