The amplitude of the speech signal varies over time, and envelope is an attempt to characterise this variation in form acoustic feature. Although tacitly assumed, similarity between envelope-derived time series that phonetic objects (e.g., vowels) remains empirically unestablished. current paper, therefore, evaluates several extraction techniques, such as Hilbert transform, by comparing different landmarks peaks envelope) with manual annotation a naturalistic diverse dataset. Joint tasks are...

Abstract Human interaction is immersed in laughter; though genuine and posed laughter are acoustically distinct, they both crucial socio-emotional signals. In this novel study, autistic non-autistic adults explicitly rated the affective properties of laughter. Additionally, we explored whether their self-reported everyday experiences with differ. Both groups could differentiate between these two types However, as more authentic emotionally arousing than adults, perceiving it to be similar...

Since the general public will play a central role in evolution of AVs, research has been performed to assess their perception and acceptance AVs. Nevertheless, most potential users i.e., young, students, more educated people, have not received any particular focus those studies. This gap motivated us perceptions. Extensive data analyses survey at University Central Florida with sample 315 reveal that on average 57% respondents were familiar about 44% felt positive perceptions toward Around...

The mechanism of grain development in elite maize breeding lines has not been fully elucidated. Grain length, width and weight are key components yield. Previously, using the Chinese line Chang7-2 its large mutant tc19, we characterized size developmental difference between tc19 performed transcriptomic analysis.In this paper, comparative transcriptomic, proteomic metabolomic analyses at different stages. Through proteomics analyses, found 2884, 505 126 differentially expressed proteins...

Language is central to the interactional nature of social life within which it situated. To react or respond in a particular situation, we must be able recognize situation. Growing evidence has demonstrated negative impact perceived loneliness on late-life executive functions. Yet little known about how factors language processing for older people. The current study aims fill this gap, first by assessing age-related changes lexical during Chinese word reading, second, examining whether...

Spontaneous and conversational laughter are important socio-emotional communicative signals. Neuroimaging findings suggest that non-autistic people engage in mentalizing to understand the meaning behind laughter. Autistic may thus face specific challenges processing laughter, due their difficulties. Using fMRI, we explored neural differences during implicit of these two types adults passively listened funny words, followed by spontaneous or noise-vocoded vocalizations. Behaviourally, words...

Tissue iron play a critical role in cognitive functions. However, associations of basal ganglia concentration with cognition and emotion children are less well understood. This study examined the correlation susceptibility values bilateral nuclei functions social emotional capacity around age seven. The results highlighted that inhibitory control, collaboration, open-mindedness showed significant association ganglia. In conclusion, this QSM indicated potential for using brain content to...

Quantifying the intricate relationship between brain structure and function is of extreme importance in neuroscience. In this work, we present a comprehensive framework for mapping structural connectivity measured via diffusion-MRI to resting-state functional magnetoencephalography, utilizing deep-learning model based on Graph Multi-Head Attention AutoEncoder. We compare results those from an analytical that utilizes shortest-path- length search-information communication mechanisms. The...

In everyday life, listeners spontaneously and rapidly form first impressions from others' voices: Are they young? trustworthy? Previous research shows that, compared to non-autistic people, autistic people show similarities differences in how evaluate others based on their faces. However, it remains unclear whether voices the same way as people. We asked both rate a social characteristic (Trustworthiness) physical (Age) voice recordings that lasted 50, 200, or 800 ms establish voices. found...

Self-supervised learning is emerging in fine-grained visual recognition with promising results. However, existing self-supervised methods are often susceptible to irrelevant patterns tasks and lack the capability represent subtle differences inherent (FGVR), resulting generally poorer performance. To address this, we propose a novel Priority-Perception Self-Supervised Learning framework, denoted as PP-SSL, which can effectively filter out feature interference extract more discriminative...

Human laughter is a social emotion and behaviour that primarily expressed in interactions crucial for humans to establish maintain bonds relationships. Despite its universality, there great variation human laughter, both terms of how people produce perceive it. In this study, we developed the first questionnaire on healthy, everyday behaviour, Laughter Production Perception Questionnaire (LPPQ). We 30-item version English collected data an English-speaking sample (N = 823). used Principal...

Human interaction is immersed in laughter; though genuine and posed laughter are acoustically distinct, they both crucial socio-emotional signals. In this novel study, autistic non-autistic adults explicitly rated the affective properties of laughter. Additionally, we explored whether their self-reported everyday experiences with differ. Both groups could differentiate between these two types However, as more authentic emotionally arousing than adults, perceiving it to be similar Autistic...

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background</bold> While most research on the non-verbal communication challenges encountered by autistic people centres visual stimuli, vocalizations remains overlooked. Laughter serves as a socio-emotional signal for affiliative bonding in interactions. Autistic seem to experience and produce laughter differently non-autistic are known have mentalizing difficulties. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that engage understand meaning behind conversational laughter....

Human laughter is an emotional and non-verbal vocalisation, primarily expressed in social interactions crucial for humans to establish maintain bonds. Despite its universality, there great variation people’s individual experiences of laughter, terms how they produce perceive it. In this study, we developed the first questionnaire on healthy, everyday behaviour, Laughter Production Perception Questionnaire (LPPQ). We a 30-item English collected data English-speaking sample (N = 823). Based...