For facial-avatar animation, we demonstrate the control of virtual orofacial movements for speech and non-speech communicative gestures. The decoders reached high performance with less than two weeks of training. Our findings introduce a multimodal speech-neuroprosthetic approach that has substantial ...
Study finds distinct brain paths for speech, writing Way to help stroke victims is foreseenJudy Foreman, Globe Staff
for example, a brainstrokebecause the destroyed brain areas can be identified at autopsy, it is more difficult in the case of the large group of so-called functional speech disorders for two reasons: first, they are definitely not caused by gross, easily visible organic lesions, and, second,...
Intensive therapy, even four years later, improves stroke victims speechtext editorEmerging Infectious Diseases
et al. (2002)This study included only those patients admitted to the Lille acute stroke unit who were examined by a speech therapist with the Montreal–Toulouse battery “usually within the first month after stroke.” Of 207 patients diagnosed as aphasic, 52 were classified as global, 30 as...
There was a serial killer in the 1800s who killed his victims with a Philips-head screwdriver his father had given him for Christmas. He favored the Philips-head screwdriver because it had a pointed tip. As you would expect, he was called the “Screwdriver Killer” but people also called ...
Persuasion and exchange share a unique feature as devices of altering other people's behavior in that the people thus altered are glad the offer was made. Not so of coercion. It is not surprising to find aristocratic Plato equally outraged at the "flattery" of hoi polloi by democratic ...
“The master-stroke of the Jew was to claim the leadership of the fourth estate: he founded the Movements both of the Social Democrats and the Communists. His policy was twofold: he had his ‘apostles’ in both political camps. “Parallel with this was a gradual ‘moneyfication’ of the...
Therapeutic applications of singing (e.g., melodic intonation therapy) for acquired neurogenic communication disorders (ANCD) such as post-stroke aphasia, dysarthria, or neurodegenerative diseases have emerged from innovations by clinical speech-language pathologists (SLPs). However, these specialists have...