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Publisher: figshare
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.AJP.2022.103136
Abstract: The Internet Addiction Test is a widely used assessment of symptoms of internet addiction. Although originally proposed as assessing different components of internet addiction, research has been mixed in terms of its factor structure. This study is the first to examine the psychometric properties of the IAT in an Indian population. A large s le (N = 2700) of Indians living in the Southern city of India were recruited door-to-door and completed the IAT and other validity measures. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (n = 1375) indicated a one-factor structure, with 13 items measuring symptoms of internet addiction. This short-form IAT showed construct and convergent validity by correlating with higher daily internet use, higher scores on measures of problematic internet gaming, social media use, and smartphone use, and functional impact. In Study 2, confirmatory factor analysis (n = 1375) indicted this one-factor structure was a good fit to the data, and the correlations with validity measures were replicated. This short-form IAT appears to be valid as a measure of one underlying factor of problematic internet use in young Indian adults.
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 15-03-2022
DOI: 10.3389/FPSYG.2022.830306
Abstract: Contrary to the assumption of arbitrariness in modern linguistics, sound symbolism, which is the non-arbitrary relationship between sounds and meanings, exists. Sound symbolism, including the “Bouba–Kiki” effect, implies the universality of such relationships in iduals from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds can similarly relate sound-symbolic words to referents, although the extent of these similarities remains to be fully understood. Here, we examined if subjects from different countries could similarly infer the surface texture properties from words that sound-symbolically represent hardness in Japanese. We prepared Japanese sound-symbolic words of which novelty was manipulated by a genetic algorithm (GA). Japanese speakers in Japan and English speakers in both Singapore and the United States rated these words based on surface texture properties (hardness, warmness, and roughness), as well as familiarity. The results show that hardness-related words were rated as harder and rougher than softness-related words, regardless of novelty and countries. Multivariate analyses of the ratings classified the hardness-related words along the hardness-softness dimension at over 80% accuracy, regardless of country. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the number of speech sounds /g/ and /k/ predicted the ratings of the surface texture properties in non-Japanese countries, suggesting a systematic relationship between phonetic features of a word and perceptual quality represented by the word across culturally and linguistically erse s les.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.21979/N9/RSOURI
Publisher: DE GRUYTER MOUTON
Date: 16-05-2011
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.21979/N9/MJMFXV
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-04-2021
Abstract: Phoneme perception is critically involved in alphabetic reading, however current findings may not hold for bilinguals. In the CROWN Game, children hear tokens of familiar words across a voice-onset time continuum (-60ms to 90ms). We measured in idual VOT threshold and the slope of the transition between categories in 138 English/Chinese speaking bilinguals in Singapore kindergartens. The task showed a wide spread of scores and good split-half reliability. In a preregistered analysis, we examined whether bilingual balance or order of acquisition influenced categorical perception of English phonemes /b/ and /. GLMMs revealed categorical perception was independent from language exposure. This suggests the CROWN Game is valid for use with bilingual children, including as a possible screening tool for future reading difficulties.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.21979/N9/0IEIPV
Publisher: EasyChair
DOI: 10.29007/XXX9
Abstract: Higher education institutions (HEIs) infrastructure asset is a complex and massive investment, with high operational and management cost. The functionality of this infrastructure facility is paramount to the performance and well-being of its users. The effective and efficient operation and management of this facility required adequate knowledge and collaboration of all stakeholders. This study is a preliminary part of a research aim to adopt socioBIM for HE facilities users and facility management (FM) section, to interact with their learning environment and enhance collaborative practice to improve facility intelligence. The study method explores the advancement in building information modelling, decision support systems, and integrator networks based on grounded theory. Conceptually, the adoption of socioBIM reflects an enhancement of users' facility literacy, stakeholder’s participation and FM organisational intelligence within HEIs. These will culminate to stakeholder’s satisfaction and competitive advantage. Further study is also needful in the efficacy of socioBIM adoption.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2011
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: The bouba–kiki effect depicts a non-arbitrary mapping between specific shapes and non-words: an angular shape is more often named with a sharp sound like ‘kiki’, while a curved shape is more often matched to a blunter sound like ‘bouba’. This effect shows a natural tendency of sound-shape pairing and has been shown to take place among adults who have different mother tongues (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001), pre-schoolers (Maurer, Pathman, & Mondloch, 2006), and even four-month-olds (Ozturk, Krehm, & Vouloumanos, 2013). These studies therefore establish that similar sound-to-shape mappings could happen among different cultures and early in development, suggesting the mappings may be innate and possibly universal. However, it remains unclear what level of mental processing gives rise to these perceptions: the mappings could rely on introspective processes about ‘goodness-of-fit,’ or they could rely on automatic sensory processes which are active prior to conscious awareness. Here we designed several experiments to directly examine the automaticity of the bouba-kiki effect. Specifically, we examined whether the congruency of a sound-shape pair can be processed before access to awareness?
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: Automatic connections between sounds and visual shapes have been documented for some time (c.f., Spence, 2011). We replicated audiovisual correspondences with simple linguistic sounds /i/ and /u/, this time produced in the lexical tones of Mandarin Chinese, using a modified version of the implicit association test (IAT). Although congruent blocks were significantly faster than incongruent ones (p .001), no effect of tone congruence was observed. Since tone was an unattended stimulus dimension, we argue that attention modulates sensory congruence in implicit association tasks of this nature.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2022.119056
Abstract: Good Scientific Practice (GSP) refers to both explicit and implicit rules, recommendations, and guidelines that help scientists to produce work that is of the highest quality at any given time, and to efficiently share that work with the community for further scrutiny or utilization. For experimental research using magneto- and electroencephalography (MEEG), GSP includes specific standards and guidelines for technical competence, which are periodically updated and adapted to new findings. However, GSP also needs to be periodically revisited in a broader light. At the LiveMEEG 2020 conference, a reflection on GSP was fostered that included explicitly documented guidelines and technical advances, but also emphasized intangible GSP: a general awareness of personal, organizational, and societal realities and how they can influence MEEG research. This article provides an extensive report on most of the LiveMEEG contributions and new literature, with the additional aim to synthesize ongoing cultural changes in GSP. It first covers GSP with respect to cognitive biases and logical fallacies, pre-registration as a tool to avoid those and other early pitfalls, and a number of resources to enable collaborative and reproducible research as a general approach to minimize misconceptions. Second, it covers GSP with respect to data acquisition, analysis, reporting, and sharing, including new tools and frameworks to support collaborative work. Finally, GSP is considered in light of ethical implications of MEEG research and the resulting responsibility that scientists have to engage with societal challenges. Considering among other things the benefits of peer review and open access at all stages, the need to coordinate larger international projects, the complexity of MEEG subject matter, and today's prioritization of fairness, privacy, and the environment, we find that current GSP tends to favor collective and cooperative work, for both scientific and for societal reasons.
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: In the world of rock, blues, and popular music, guitarists who pull faces when they play are somehow more entertaining to watch – as if there is an agreement between the performer and the audience that certain facial gestures enhance the expression of the music at key moments. How does this agreement come about? What is it that viewers and performers share? Research in the field of cross-modal perception has demonstrated that humans share systematic linkages between the senses, including vision and audition. For ex le, people link higher pitched sounds with smaller, paler, and higher-up objects than lower sounds (e.g., Mondloch & Maurer, 2004). Yet few investigations have explored how these linkages relate to performance in the creative arts. One theory suggests that artists have stronger functional connectivity between sensory areas, and are therefore able to invoke or translate sensory experiences across modalities, using sensory metaphors, and strategic sensory exaggeration (Ramachandran, 2003). To test if viewers share a sensory experience with performers, we asked participants in an online quiz to guess which of two guitar faces ‘went with’ particular moments in guitar solos. One-hundred and seventeen volunteers guessed guitar faces at rates higher than would be predicted by chance, indicating that people were able to draw meaningful information about music from still images of the guitarist’s face. In addition to presenting the results of the study in a poster format, this demonstration will give visitors a chance to engage with the interaction between musical performance and performative gesture, in two activities.
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: A large body of research on connections between sensory modalities has shown that deep connections exist between sound and vision, such that people have a tendency to associate certain sounds with certain visual properties, including line-drawn shapes. While recognising the role of written language in audio-visual associations, previous research has largely considered written language a potential source of bias rather than a means of gaining deeper in sights into underlying audio-visual associations. We looked to ancient and unfamiliar writing systems spanning recorded human history, to explore whether humans have tried to encode certain characteristics of speech sounds in the letters they created to represent them. Our findings have revealed that modern humans can correctly identify unfamiliar letters at levels higher than would be obtained by chance, and that scripts which encode a particular sound with a particular set of visual characteristics tend to have more correct guesses. This suggests that humans share certain correspondences between sound and sight, which transcend both geographical space and historical time. The present multisensory demonstration aims to provide an interactive experience of the powerful connection between sounds and written letters through a series of activities integrating vision, audition, touch and imagination.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 10-05-2022
Abstract: The standard Beijing variety of Mandarin, has a clear alveolar-retroflex contrast for phonemes featuring voiceless sibilant frication (i.e., /s/, /ʂ/, /ʈs/, /ʈʂ/, /ʈsʰ/, /ʈʂʰ/). However, some studies show that varieties in the ‘outer-circle,’ such in Taiwan, have a reduced contrast for these speech sounds via a process known as “deretroflexion”. The variety of Mandarin spoken in Singapore is also considered ‘outer circle’, as it exhibits influences from Min Nan varieties. We investigated how bilinguals of Singapore Mandarin and English perceive and produce speech tokens in minimal pairs differing only in the alveolar/retroflex place of articulation. 50 Participants took part in two tasks. In task one, participants performed a lexical identification task for minimal pairs differing only the alveolar/retroflex place of articulation, as spoken by native speakers of two varieties: Beijing Mandarin and Singapore Mandarin. No difference in comprehension of the words was observed between the two varieties indicating that both varieties contain sufficient acoustic information for discrimination. In task two, participants read aloud from the list of minimal pairs while their voices were recorded. Acoustic analysis revealed that the phonemes do indeed differ acoustically in terms of centre of gravity of the frication, and in an alternative measure: long term averaged spectra. The magnitude of this difference appears to be smaller than previously reported differences for the Beijing variety. These findings show that although some deretroflexion is evident in the speech of bilinguals of the Singaporean variety of Mandarin, it does not translate to ambiguity in the speech signal.
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2017
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 07-12-2017
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: Integration between the senses is an intrinsic part of the human condition. Many forms of artistic expression make use of these sensory alliances, for ex le, the expression of rhythm and melody in dance. To test whether performers can effectively communicate information from one sensory modality (hearing) into another (vision), we asked one experienced dancer to perform dance-motions to the sounds of meaningless speech, and asked junior dancers to guess which dance motions were produced in response to which sounds. The junior dancers were substantially better than chance in the guessing task, suggesting that the dance performer successfully captured acoustic information about the identity of the speech sounds in her motions. We also found that dance experience did not predict performance in the task, suggesting that sensory congruence may not be learned through practice, but may be shared among the general population. However, a subset of dancers were much better than the main group, suggesting that sensory congruence may be differentially distributed through the population. This fits well with a model in which the strength of sensory connectivity differs across the population, and in which the creative arts attracts those in iduals for whom the intrinsic links between the senses are experienced more powerfully.
Publisher: Open Science Framework
Date: 2021
Publisher: ISCA
Date: 28-06-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.BANDL.2015.03.011
Abstract: There is something about the sound of a pseudoword like takete that goes better with a spiky, than a curvy shape (Köhler, 1929:1947). Yet despite decades of research into sound symbolism, the role of this effect on real words in the lexicons of natural languages remains controversial. We report one behavioural and one ERP study investigating whether sound symbolism is active during normal language processing for real words in a speaker's native language, in the same way as for novel word forms. The results indicate that sound-symbolic congruence has a number of influences on natural language processing: Written forms presented in a congruent visual context generate more errors during lexical access, as well as a chain of differences in the ERP. These effects have a very early onset (40-80 ms, 100-160 ms, 280-320 ms) and are later overshadowed by familiar types of semantic processing, indicating that sound symbolism represents an early sensory-co-activation effect.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.21979/N9/W3HFGJ
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 26-02-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 08-07-2021
Abstract: English and Mandarin Chinese differ in the voice onset times (VOTs) of /b/ and /. Hence the way bilinguals perceive these sounds may show ‘tuning’ to the language-specific acoustic structure of a bilingual’s languages (a discrete model), or a shared representation across languages (a unitary model). We investigated whether an in idual’s early childhood exposure influences their model of phoneme perception across languages, in a large s le of early English-Mandarin bilingual adults in Singapore (N=66). As preregistered, we mapped identification functions on a /b/ - / VOT continuum in each language. Bilingual balance was estimated using principal components analysis and entered into GLMMs of phoneme boundary and slope. VOT boundaries were earlier for English than Mandarin, and bilingual balance predicted the slope of the transition between categories across both languages: Those who heard more English from an earlier age showed steeper category boundaries than those who heard more Mandarin, suggesting early bilinguals may transfer their model for how phonemes differ from their earlier/stronger languages to later/weaker languages. We describe the transfer model of discrete phoneme representations and its implications for use of the phoneme identification task in erse populations. (final version prior to publication, updated on 9 March 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.21979/N9/WLDL2L
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 11-12-2013
Abstract: While the causes of accidents in the construction industry have been extensively studied, severity remains an understudied area. In order to provide more evidence for the currently limited number of empirical investigations on severity, this study analysed 24,764 construction accidents reported during 2002-11 in South Australia. A conceptual model developed through literature uses personal characteristics such as age, experience, gender and language. It also employs work-related factors such as size of organization, project size and location, mechanism of accident and body location of the injury. These were shown to discriminate why some accidents result in only a minor severity while others are fatal. Factors such as time of accident, day of the week and season were not strongly associated with accident severity. When the factors affecting severity of an accident are well understood, preventive measures could be developed specifically to those factors that are at high risk.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 15-12-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009264
Abstract: Is parental report of comprehension valid for in idual words? If so, how well must an infant know a word before their parents will report it as ‘understood’? We report an experiment in which parental report predicts infant performance in a referent identification task at 1 6. Unlike in previous research of this kind (i.e. Houston-Price, Mather & Sakkalou, 2007), infants saw items only once, and image pairs were taxonomic sisters. The match between parental report and infant behaviour provides evidence of the item-level accuracy of both measures of lexical comprehension, and informs our understanding of how British parents interpret standardized Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs).
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-02-2014
Publisher: Sachsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Date: 21-10-2020
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.21979/N9/XSCH9X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: arXiv
Date: 2022
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2007
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.21979/N9/LRPEAR
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 27-09-2022
Abstract: Bilinguals are widely reported to have certain kinds of cognitive advantages, including language learning advantages. One possible pathway is a language-specific transfer effect, whereby sensitivity to structural regularities in known languages can be brought to to-be-acquired languages that share particular features. Here we tested for transfer of a specific linguistic property, sensitivity to retroflexion as contrastive phonemic feature. We designed a task for bilinguals with homogeneous language exposure (i.e., bilingual in the same languages) and heterogeneous feature representation (i.e., differing levels of proficiency). Hindi and Mandarin Chinese both have retroflexion in phoneme contrasts (Hindi: stop consonants, Mandarin: sibilants). In a preregistered study, we conducted a statistical learning task for the Hindi dental-retroflex stop contrast with a group of early parallel English-Mandarin bilinguals, who varied in their Mandarin understanding levels. We based the target s le size on power analysis of a pilot study with a Bayesian stop-rule after minimum threshold. Contrary to the pilot study (N = 15), the main study (N = 50) did not find evidence for a learning effect, nor language-experience variance within the group. This finding suggests that statistical learning effects for the feature in question may be more fragile than commonly assumed, and may be evident in only a small subs le of the general population (as in our pilot). These stimuli have previously shown learning effects in children, so an additional possibility is that neural commitment to adults’ languages prevents learning of the fine-stimulus contrast in question for this adult population.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 23-11-2015
Abstract: University lecturers who aspire to provide an improved learning experience for their students continually, and be recognised for high quality teaching should embrace a critically reflective practice. Nonetheless, developing as a reflective lecturer is challenging, although there are pedagogical literatures as general guidelines. This study introduces a new pedagogical model of critically reflective practice to simplify the efforts for lecturers and to shorten their journey to becoming effective teachers. A two-phased action research strategy was adopted for the development and validation of the new model. The first phase operationalised the Brookfield’s four-lens framework to create a reflective teaching practice model, which was then validated with a case study in the second phase. The model offers a pragmatic blueprint for lecturers to build a career with sustained quality of teaching, which in turn translates into improved learning experiences for students.
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 09-2017
DOI: 10.1098/RSOS.170882
Abstract: In three experiments, we asked whether erse scripts contain interpretable information about the speech sounds they represent. When presented with a pair of unfamiliar letters, adult readers correctly guess which is /i/ (the ‘ee’ sound in ‘feet’), and which is /u/ (the ‘oo’ sound in ‘shoe’) at rates higher than expected by chance, as shown in a large s le of Singaporean university students (Experiment 1) and replicated in a larger s le of international Internet users (Experiment 2). To uncover what properties of the letters contribute to different scripts' ‘guessability,’ we analysed the visual spatial frequencies in each letter (Experiment 3). We predicted that the lower spectral frequencies in the formants of the vowel /u/ would pattern with lower spatial frequencies in the corresponding letters. Instead, we found that across all spatial frequencies, the letter with more black/white cycles (i.e. more ink) was more likely to be guessed as /u/, and the larger the difference between the glyphs in a pair, the higher the script's guessability. We propose that erse groups of humans across historical time and geographical space tend to employ similar iconic strategies for representing speech in visual form, and provide norms for letter pairs from 56 erse scripts.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.21979/N9/Z3W4CP
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-03-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-08557-7
Abstract: English and Mandarin Chinese differ in the voice onset times (VOTs) of /b/ and /. Hence the way bilinguals perceive these sounds may show ‘tuning’ to the language-specific acoustic structure of a bilingual’s languages (a discrete model), or a shared representation across languages (a unitary model). We investigated whether an in idual’s early childhood exposure influences their model of phoneme perception across languages, in a large s le of early English-Mandarin bilingual adults in Singapore (N = 66). As preregistered, we mapped identification functions on a /b/- / VOT continuum in each language. Bilingual balance was estimated using principal components analysis and entered into GLMMs of phoneme boundary and slope. VOT boundaries were earlier for English than Mandarin, and bilingual balance predicted the slope of the transition between categories across both languages: Those who heard more English from an earlier age showed steeper category boundaries than those who heard more Mandarin, suggesting early bilinguals may transfer their model for how phonemes differ from their earlier/stronger languages to later/weaker languages. We describe the transfer model of discrete phoneme representations and its implications for use of the phoneme identification task in erse populations.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-08-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S11065-021-09513-4
Abstract: Given the complexity of ERP recording and processing pipeline, the resulting variability of methodological options, and the potential for these decisions to influence study outcomes, it is important to understand how ERP studies are conducted in practice and to what extent researchers are transparent about their data collection and analysis procedures. The review gives an overview of methodology reporting in a s le of 132 ERP papers, published between January 1980 – June 2018 in journals included in two large databases: Web of Science and PubMed. Because ERP methodology partly depends on the study design, we focused on a well-established component (the N400) in the most commonly assessed population (healthy neurotypical adults), in one of its most common modalities (visual images). The review provides insights into 73 properties of study design, data pre-processing, measurement, statistics, visualization of results, and references to supplemental information across studies within the same subfield. For each of the examined methodological decisions, the degree of consistency, clarity of reporting and deviations from the guidelines for best practice were examined. Overall, the results show that each study had a unique approach to ERP data recording, processing and analysis, and that at least some details were missing from all papers. In the review, we highlight the most common reporting omissions and deviations from established recommendations, as well as areas in which there was the least consistency. Additionally, we provide guidance for a priori selection of the N400 measurement window and electrode locations based on the results of previous studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2009
Abstract: Do infants learn their early words in semantic isolation? Or do they integrate new words into an inter-connected semantic system? In an infant-friendly adaptation of the adult lexical priming paradigm, infants at 18 and 24 months-of-age heard two words in quick succession. The noun-pairs were either related or unrelated. Following the onset of the target word, two pictures were presented, one of which depicted the target. Eye movements revealed that both age groups comprehended the target word. In addition, 24-month-olds demonstrated primed picture looking in two measures of comprehension: Named target pictures preceded by a related word pair took longer to disengage from and attracted more looking overall. The finding of enhanced target recognition demonstrates the emergence of semantic organisation by the end of the second year.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 17-01-2020
Abstract: Given the complexity of ERP recording and processing pipeline, the resulting variability of methodological options, and the potential for these decisions to influence study outcomes, it is important to understand how ERP studies are conducted in practice and to what extent researchers are transparent about their data collection and analysis procedures. The review gives an overview of methodology reporting in a s le of 132 ERP papers, published between January 1980 – June 2018 in journals included in two large databases: Web of Science and PubMed. Because ERP methodology partly depends on the study design, we focused on a well-established component (the N400) in the most commonly assessed population (healthy neurotypical adults), in one of its most common modalities (visual images).The review provides insights into 73 properties of study design, data pre-processing, measurement, statistics, visualization of results, and references to supplemental information across studies within the same subfield. For each of the examined methodological decisions, the degree of consistency, clarity of reporting and deviations from the guidelines for best practice were examined. Overall, the results show that each study had a unique approach to ERP data recording, processing and analysis, and that at least some details were missing from all papers. In the review, we highlight the most common reporting omissions and deviations from established recommendations, as well as areas in which there was the least consistency. Additionally, we provide guidance for a priori selection of the N400 measurement window and electrode locations based on the results of previous studies.
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 24-06-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2021.118721
Abstract: As the number of EEG papers increases, so too do the number of guidelines for how to report what has been done. However, current guidelines and checklists appear to have limited adoption, as systematic reviews have shown the journal article format is highly prone to errors, ambiguities and omissions of methodological details. This is a problem for transparency in the scientific record, along with reproducibility and metascience. Following lessons learned in the high complexity fields of aviation and surgery, we conclude that new tools are needed to overcome the limitations of written methodology descriptions, and that these tools should be developed through community consultation to ensure that they have the most utility for EEG stakeholders. As a first step in tool development, we present the ARTEM-IS Statement describing what action will be needed to create an Agreed Reporting Template for Electroencephalography Methodology - International Standard (ARTEM-IS), along with ARTEM-IS Design Guidelines for developing tools that use an evidence-based approach to error reduction. We first launched the statement at the LiveMEEG conference in 2020 along with a draft of an ARTEM-IS template for public consultation. Members of the EEG community are invited to join this collective effort to create evidence-based tools that will help make the process of reporting methodology intuitive to complete and foolproof by design.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 12-06-2021
Abstract: As the number of EEG papers increases, so too do the number of guidelines for how to report what has been done. However, current guidelines and checklists appear to have limited adoption, as systematic reviews have shown the journal article format is highly prone to errors, ambiguities and omissions of methodological details. This is a problem for transparency in the scientific record, along with reproducibility and metascience. Following lessons learned in the high complexity fields of aviation and surgery, we conclude that new tools are needed to overcome the limitations of written methodology descriptions, and that these tools should be developed through community consultation to ensure that they have the most utility for EEG stakeholders. As a first step in tool development, we present the ARTEM-IS Statement describing what action will be needed to create an Agreed Reporting Template for Electroencephalography Methodology - International Standard (ARTEM-IS), along with ARTEM-IS Design Guidelines for developing tools that use an evidence-based approach to error reduction. We first launched the statement at the LiveMEEG conference in 2020 along with a draft of an ARTEM-IS template for public consultation. Members of the EEG community are invited to join this collective effort to create evidence-based tools that will help make the process of reporting methodology intuitive to complete and foolproof by design. [First Major Revision Oct 2021]
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-01-2013
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.21979/N9/KEMDEG
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2018
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2018
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.21979/N9/XQAIVT
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-06-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2017
Abstract: Nonarbitrary mappings between sound and shape (i.e., the bouba-kiki effect) have been shown across different cultures and early in development however, the level of processing at which this effect arises remains unclear. Here we show that the mapping occurs prior to conscious awareness of the visual stimuli. Under continuous flash suppression, congruent stimuli (e.g., “kiki” inside an angular shape) broke through to conscious awareness faster than incongruent stimuli. This was true even when we trained people to pair unfamiliar letters with auditory word forms, a result showing that the effect was driven by the phonology, not the visual features, of the letters. Furthermore, visibility thresholds of the shapes decreased when they were preceded by a congruent auditory word form in a masking paradigm. Taken together, our results suggest that sound-shape mapping can occur automatically prior to conscious awareness of visual shapes, and that sensory congruence facilitates conscious awareness of a stimulus being present.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 02-04-2020
Abstract: The present study tested whether the degree of phonological difference between the labels of categories influence category learning and generalization. For this purpose, two experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, participants learned two categories labelled with pseudo-words that were controlled for the degree of difference between the phonetic features of their labels, such that they each pair was maximally different, minimally different, or somewhere in between. These labelled conditions were compared against a no-label control condition. Results showed that participants learned faster and generalized better for categories when category labels differed more.In the second experiment we tested whether these effects could be attributed to the sound symbolic congruence of the labels to the category members. Results showed that phonological differences influence learning independently from the sound symbolic match. Further we specify a category learning model based on generalized perceptual discriminability of the to-be categorized information, including perceptual features of both items and their labels: Categories are easier to learn when their features (including labels) are easier to discriminate.
Publisher: figshare
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 20-12-2013
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 08-03-2013
Abstract: Quality learning outcomes are correlated with students’ motivation to learn. Lecturers need to design courses that enthuse, inspire and motivate their students. But, this is a fundamental challenge facing many lecturers. A new motivation-driven learning and teaching model was developed to help lecturers in this regard. Its operationalisation, implementation and evaluation were conducted in a first year course in Construction Management degree through action research. Study findings suggest that the new model can help lecturers to improve overall teaching quality and student learning experience as it facilitates effective course delivery, stimulation of student motivation to learn and improved learning support.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 05-01-2023
Abstract: Given that the choices made during recording, preprocessing and analysis of event-related potentials (ERP) data can affect study outcomes, it is critical that they are transparently reported to allow for reproducibility and replicability. Yet, systematic reviews of reporting practices in the field have shown that journal articles do not meet this goal and that guidelines for writing them better have not resulted in a sufficient improvement to reporting transparency.ARTEM-IS aims to address this issue by building dynamic, interactive web applications that support documenting information required by existing publication guidelines in the form of a standardised metadata template. Completing an ARTEM-IS form results in a human-reader-friendly PDF and a machine-readable JSON summary of methodological information, which allows for a level of reporting precision higher than what is typically found in journal articles. These can be used as supplements to a publication, as a memory aid when writing a paper, or as records that allow easier metadata extraction in comparison to verbal descriptions in papers.Here, we present the ARTEM-IS for ERP, which supports describing a typical ERP study, including most of its core methodological aspects (study description, experimental design, hardware, data acquisition, pre-processing, measurement, visualisation, additional comments). We discuss the current contents of the form, web application functionalities, current limitations, and potential directions for future developments. In addition, the process of building the form contents and the web application through a collaborative grassroots initiative is described. Finally, we argue that a wider adoption of ARTEM-IS can bring benefits to different stakeholders: researchers themselves or their collaborators, especially on large-scale projects, reviewers, readers of a paper, and the scientific community at large.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 20-02-2018
Publisher: ISCA
Date: 30-08-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: PeerJ
Date: 29-06-2017
DOI: 10.7717/PEERJ.3466
Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple noun-hierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned the make up of two categories of unfamiliar objects (‘alien life forms’), and were passively exposed to either category-labels or item-labels, in a learning-by-guessing categorization task. Following category training, participants were tested on their visual discrimination of object pairs. For different groups of participants, the labels were either congruent or incongruent with the objects. In Experiment 1, when trained on items with in idual labels, participants were worse (made more errors) at detecting visual object mismatches when trained labels were incongruent. In Experiment 2, when participants were trained on items in labelled categories, participants were faster at detecting a match if the trained labels were congruent, and faster at detecting a mismatch if the trained labels were incongruent. This pattern of results suggests that sound symbolism in category labels facilitates later similarity judgments when congruent, and discrimination when incongruent, whereas for item labels incongruence generates error in judgements of visual object differences. These findings reveal that sound symbolic congruence has a different outcome at different levels of labelling within a noun hierarchy. These effects emerged in the absence of the label itself, indicating subtle but pervasive effects on visual object processing.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 19-11-2021
DOI: 10.3389/FPSYG.2021.734936
Abstract: With lockdowns and social distancing measures in place, research teams looking to collect naturalistic parent-child speech interactions have to develop alternatives to in-lab recordings and observational studies with long-stretch recordings. We designed a novel micro-longitudinal study, the Talk Together Study, which allowed us to create a rich corpus of parent-child speech interactions in a fully online environment (N participants = 142, N recordings = 410). In this paper, we discuss the methods we used, and the lessons learned during adapting and running the study. These lessons learned cover nine domains of research design, monitoring and feedback: Recruitment strategies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Video-call scheduling, Speech elicitation tools, Videocall protocols, Participant remuneration strategies, Project monitoring, Participant retention, and Data Quality, and may be used as a primer for teams planning to conduct remote studies in the future.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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