Oral Traditions in Performance

ORAL TRADITIONS AND ARCHEOLOGY: Modeling Village Settlement in Palau, Micronesia

Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

On Computational Transcription and Analysis of Oral and Semi - Oral Chant Traditions

Variation is considered a universal principle in music. In terms of semiotics, variation in music is omnipresent and distinguishes music from language (Middleton, 1990). In oral music traditions, variation is introduced to the music due to the absence of a concrete notation. In this paper we investigate melodic stability and variation in cadences as they occur in oral and semi-oral traditions. ...

Challenging traditions in apraxia.

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Gesch...

Challenging traditions in apraxia

Apraxia is a symptom on the border between cognition and motor control. It is predominantly caused by left brain damage and frequently accompanied by aphasia. Theories of apraxia have been dominated by a model of the conversion of mental images into motor commands proposed more than 100 years ago by the German psychiatrist Hugo Liepmann and revived for modern cognitive neurology by Norman Gesch...