The ability to recognize an individual from their voice is a widespread ability with a long evolutionary history. Yet, the perceptual representation of familiar voices is ill-defined. In two experiments, we explored the neuropsychological processes involved in the perception of voice identity. We specifically explored the hypothesis that familiar voices (trained-to-familiar (Experiment 1), and ...

This paper presents the results of a longitudinal study of ASR performance on ageing voices. Experiments were conducted on the audio recordings of the proceedings of the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS). Results show that the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Word Error Rates (WERs) for elderly voices are significantly higher than those of adult voices. The word error rate increases...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between the personal beliefs that patients with auditory hallucinations have concerning their voices and the incidence of aggression toward self, others, and objects on the inpatient ward. METHOD Forty actively hallucinating adults were recruited from the psychiatric inpatient service at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. The beliefs that subjects had ...

The hero crossing the wine-dark sea, a king kneeling at foot of his son’s killer, boy defending homeland in father’s absence. world epic Greek myth is an alluring and vast web heroic narrative moral dilemma. These iconic moments transcend history cultural decay. They live literature, art, philosophical framework contemporary human experience. Homeric intrinsically embedded our landscape; it thr...

This paper describes a pilot study into the mechanics of synthesizing severely pathological voices. Successful synthesis of such voices may ultimately provide a quantitative method for evaluating and documenting voice qualities. An analysis-by-synthesis approach using the formant synthesizer KLSYN was used to model the voices of 24 patients su ering from voice disorders. Results suggest a numbe...

Vocal expressions commonly elicit activity in superior temporal and inferior frontal cortices, indicating a distributed network to decode vocally expressed emotions. We examined the involvement of this fronto-temporal network for the decoding of angry voices during attention towards (explicit attention) or away from emotional cues in voices (implicit attention) based on a reanalysis of previous...

Qualitative research methodologies offer valuable insight into important aspects of the lived experience dementia, and provide inclusion opportunities for those with moderate to severe cognitive impairment. Narrative methods such as creative non-fiction (CNF) an evocative method utilise direct accounts living attenuate professionals academics best practice approaches supporting their needs. Men...

J.M. Coetzee is directly or indirectly always concerned with the multi-layered narrative texts problematising concept of authorship and narration. This study treats two novels as “textual narratives” “narrative dramas” at a time. From postclassical narratological perspective, investigates narrators levels in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003) authors without authority. The characters nov...