This paper reconfirms that talker identity can be transmitted across languages. Talker discrimination was examined in the ABX paradigm, where the stimuli A and B were utterances by different talkers in the same language and the stimulus X was an utterance by either of A or B in the different language. The average hit rate of this discrimination task was as high as 0.89. The mutual distance matr...

This paper presents an experiment on sound tracing, meaning an experiment on how people relate motion to sound. 38 participants were presented with 18 short sounds, and instructed to move their hands in the air while acting as though the sound was created by their hand motion. The hand motion of the participants was recorded, and has been analyzed using statistical tests, comparing results betw...

We study patterns of variation among the 20 endogamous groups of Dhangars, a caste-cluster from Maharashtra State of India, who are semi-nomadic shepherds and cattle herders. To understand patterns of variation, we subjected the data on fourteen anthropometric measurements of about 2,500 adult males and data on 6 genetic markers, published among 13 of the 20 Dhangar castes, to R-matrix analysis...

Although two-dimensional echocardiography is widely used in both clinical and experimental evaluations of regional cardiac wall motion, there is no established clinical method for quantitative analysis of the wall motion, not even for the normal radial motion observed in short-axis images. Measurement of radial wall motion requires determination of a centroid from which the radii emanate. Depen...

Music conveys emotions by means of pitch, rhythm, loudness, and many other musical qualities. It was recently confirmed that timbre also has direct association with emotion, for example, that a horn is perceived as sad and a trumpet heroic in even isolated instrument tones. As previous work has mainly focused on sustaining instruments such as bowed strings and winds, this paper presents an expe...

We propose a method for retrieving similar fMRI statistical images given a query fMRI statistical image. Our method thresholds the voxels within those images and extracts spatially distinct regions from the voxels that remain. Each region is defined by a feature vector that contains the region centroid, the region area, the average activation value for all the voxels within that region, the var...