Using the phenomenon of duplex perception, previous researchers have shown that certain manipulations affect the perception of formant transitions as speech but not their perception as nonspeech "chirps," a dissociation that is consistent with the hypothesized distinction between speech and nonspeech modes of perception [Liberman et al., Percept. Psychophys. 30, 133-143 (1981); Mann and Liberma...

BACKGROUND Plastic surgery is among the most competitive specialties in medicine, but little is known about the attributes of programs that are most attractive to successful applicants. This study aimed to understand and provide insights regarding program characteristics that are most influential to students when ranking plastic surgery programs. METHODS An anonymous online survey was conduct...

The psychological representation of phonemes and syllables was examined with a special group of subjects who voluntarily and rapidly rearrange speech units (i.e., “talk backward”). Each subject clearly used a primarily soundor spelling-based representation to talk backward, and the present work focused on the sound-based skill. Backward speech differed from a total acoustic reversal: 12.subject...

In the foreign exchange market, time-varying transaction costs and interest rates may define set of attractive currencies for investors. Our study shows that when are attractive, they tend to deviate from uncovered rate parity comove with global stochastic discount factor (SDF). Inversely, non-attractive, conform more closely do not SDF. As a consequence, both investors policy makers want know ...

this paper reports on the results of a research carried out during 1993-94 aiming at studying street sellers as an informal sector activity and a source of socio-economic problems in shiraz, iran. this study makes use of two logit models in order to present a unified framework depiciting the factors that seem to affect the developmeht of informal sector activities. the first model looks at thos...

This is a book out of the common run, for it deals with the obvious. Such a statement may seem a paradox, but is not really so, for English-speaking peoples are disinclined to dissect their own feelings or to criticise what custom had ordained as most suitable for them. Mr. Popenoe is somewhat of a casuist, but he makes out a good case for monogamy and a large family, the latter an ideal which ...