Entrainment theory focuses on processes in which interacting (i.e., coupled) rhythmic systems stabilize, producing synchronization in the ideal sense, and forms of phase related rhythmic coordination in complex cases. In human action, entrainment involves spatiotemporal and social aspects, characterizing the meaningful activities of music, dance, and communication. How can the phenomenon of hum...

Abstract This paper studies the morpho-semantics of a particular class scalar focus adverbs called Superlative Modifiers (SMs). One key feature these is that they bear degree morphology, along with gradable adjectives involved. Most analyses SMs in market do not take into consideration semantic contributions their morphology. However, cross-linguistic facts strongly suggest morphological makeup...

WHO estimates that more than 7 million people, 98% of whom are in the developing world are co-infected with HIV and TB. The situation is explosive, leading to unprecedented public health crises. Both diseases are devastating but the devastation of the TB /HIV co-epidemic surpasses the devastation of either disease on its own. An estimated 1.4 million new cases of HIV-TB occurred in 2008, repres...

Visual information has been observed to be crucial for audience members during musical performances. The present study used an eye tracker to investigate audience members' gazes while appreciating an audiovisual musical ensemble performance, based on evidence of the dominance of musical part in auditory attention when listening to multipart music that contains different melody lines and the joi...