This paper describes the collection and analysis of a multistyle emotional speech corpus, accomplished to study the variations of some acoustical parameters. Specifically, three emotional styles were considered: happiness, sadness and anger. Speech data in a neutral style were also collected, and prosodic differences of each style with respect to this neutral baseline were quantified. According...

Perceptual systems routinely separate "content" from "style," classifying familiar words spoken in an unfamiliar accent, identifying a font or handwriting style across letters, or recognizing a familiar face or object seen under unfamiliar viewing conditions. Yet a general and tractable computational model of this ability to untangle the underlying factors of perceptual observations remains elu...

Systemizing ability exists on a spectrum, with a high systemizing style meaning proficiency in analysing the rules of a system, to predict how that system works. This study uses fMRI to investigate a spectrum of low to high systemizing, to assess whether individuals with a high systemizing style exhibit an attentional bias towards local details. This is the first study to test for the neural co...

Social interest may well be called Adler's most distinctive concept (5). In his theory it is the barometer of normality and adjustment. "All failures-neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes-are failures because they are lacking in social interest" (2, p. 156). Social interest thus is a crucial factor in one's development. But it does no...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore some psychosocial factors that distinguished individuals with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) from those without NCCP, and whether these psychosocial factors were associated with anxiety and depression that are co-morbid factors of NCCP. METHODS A matched case-control design was adopted to compare differences in psychosocial factors among a target group of ...

Young men's errors in sexual perception have been linked to sexual coercion. The current investigation sought to explicate the perceptual and decisional sources of these social perception errors, as well as their link to risk for sexual violence. General Recognition Theory (GRT; [Ashby, F. G., & Townsend, J. T. (1986). Varieties of perceptual independence. Psychological Review, 93, 154-179]) wa...

In this study, we carry out a survey of the preferred learning and perceptual styles of students at the University of Mauritius to find out about their learning preferences. This study forms part of a larger research project (HyperLearn) of the development and evaluation of a webbased adaptive hypermedia system for e-learning which keeps an evolving student model with a learning style component...

Universities face the challenge of increasing numbers of students leading to increasingly large lectures, and therefore decreasing interaction and collaboration, which are important factors for individual learning success and satisfaction. With this researchin-progress, we therefore propose a conceptual framework for a blended learning flipped classroom to redesign large-scale IS lectures, reco...

Neuroimaging tests of sensorimotor theories of semantic memory hinge on the extent to which similar activation patterns are observed during perception and retrieval of objects or object properties. The present study was motivated by the hypothesis that some of the seeming discrepancies across studies reflect flexibility in the systems responsible for conceptual and perceptual processing of colo...

We theorized that interpersonal relationships can provide structures for experience. In particular, we tested whether primes of same-sex versus mixed-sex relationships could foster cognitive-perceptual processing styles known to be associated with independence versus interdependence respectively. Seventy-two participants visualized either a same-sex or other-sex relationship partner and then pe...