ABSTRACT This article examines the progression of counter-clockwise nasal vowel chain shift in Parisian French, investigating particular influence biological sex and sexuality on propagation this change from below. The research presented forms part a study participation sexual minorities ongoing sound change; aims to address continued exclusion sociolinguistic studies, which not only invisibili...

A deviant sound in a sequence of repeating (standard) sounds elicits the mismatch negativity (MMN) component in the event-related brain potential (ERP) recorded from the scalp.1 The MMN is elicited even when the subject is instructed to ignore the auditory stimuli and attend to other stimuli. In the ERP to deviant sounds, the MMN overlaps with the negative N1 (peak latency about 100 ms from sti...

What determines the magnitude of attentional capture by deviant sound events? We combined the cross-modal oddball distraction paradigm with sequence learning to address this question. Participants responded to visual targets, each preceded by tones that formed a repetitive cross-trial standard sequence. In Experiment 1, with the standard tone sequence …-660-440-660-880-… Hz, either the 440 Hz o...

Sensitivity to the environment's sequential regularities makes it possible to predict upcoming sensory events. To investigate the mechanisms that monitor such predictions, we recorded scalp EEG as subjects learned to reproduce sequences of motions. Each sequence was seen and reproduced four successive times, with occasional deviant directions of motion inserted into otherwise-familiar and predi...

Detecting clients with deviant behavior in the Bittorrent network is a challenging task that has not received the deserved attention. Typically, this question is seen as not ’politically’ correct, since it is associated with the controversial issue of detecting copyright protection agencies. However, deviant behavior detection and associated blacklists might prove crucial for the well being of ...

Neurophysiological abnormalities in auditory deviance processing, as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN), have been observed across the course of schizophrenia. Studies in early schizophrenia patients have typically shown varying degrees of MMN amplitude reduction for different deviant types, suggesting that different auditory deviants are uniquely processed and may be differentially aff...

With the ever increasing numberand diverse type of attacks, including new and previouslyunseen attacks, the effectiveness of an Intrusion DetectionSystem is very important. Hence there is high demand to reduce the threat level in networks to ensure the data and services offered by them to be more secure. In this paper we developed an effective test suite for improving the efficiency and accurac...