BACKGROUND The study aims to assess the therapeutic benefits of motor imagery training in stroke patients with persistent motor weakness. There is evidence to suggest that mental rehearsal of movement can produce effects normally attributed to practising the actual movements. Imagining hand movements could stimulate the redistribution of brain activity, which accompanies recovery of hand functi...

OBJECTIVE To review the current published available research into the impact of voice training on the vocal quality of professional voice users, to provide implications for vocal health and recommendations for further research. DESIGN Literature review with a systematic approach. METHODS A systematic search of the literature was conducted using electronic databases and the following defined...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of a specific program regarding the occurrence of vocal attrition symptoms in telemarketers. A total of 71 subjects participated in this study: 28 completed the Vocal Symptoms questionnaire to test its reliability, and 43 were randomly assigned to two groups: an 8-week vocal training group (n = 14) and a no-training control group (...

Rehearsal-based interfaces such as Marking Menus or FastTap are designed to enable smooth transitions from novice to expert performance by making the novice’s visually-guided actions a physical rehearsal of the expert’s feedback-free actions. However, these interfaces have not been extensively tested in real use. We carried out studies of the adoption of rehearsal-based expert methods in two di...

An experimental offline investigation of the performance of connected digits recognition was performed on children in the age range four to eight years. Poor performance using adult models was improved significantly by adaptation and vocal tract length normalisation but not to the same level as training on children. Age dependent models were tried with limited advantage. A combined adult and ch...

Three flee-recall experiments were motivated by the common-sense notion that an item should be better remembered and less easily forgotten the greater the rehearsal devoted to the item. In each experiment, four lists of words were presented and a cue to remember or to forget was presented after each word in a list in turn. Before each cue was presented, however, there was a variable blank perio...