The present study aims to explore how phonological, morphological and prosodic features of an utterance affect perception of English codas by Mandarin listeners. A phoneme detection task was conducted with the word-final target phoneme /s/ appearing utterance-medially or finally in various phonological (consonant cluster vs. singleton) and morphological (plural morpheme vs. coda of a stem word)...

The lower parallactic depth threshold is determined by (a) the ratio of relative image velocity to head velocity when the head moves fast (>13 cm/s) and (b) the motion threshold when the head moves slow (<13 cm/s). These two results are explained by a single system that codes the ratio of relative image velocity to head velocity, using the same image velocity signal as that used for motion perc...

In this paper, I critically assess the enactive account of visual perception recently defended by Alva Noë (2004) . I argue inter alia that the enactive account falsely identifi es an object ’ s apparent shape with its 2D perspectival shape; that it mistakenly assimilates visual shape perception and volumetric object recognition; and that it seriously misrepresents the constitutive role of bodi...

Content Based Image Retrieval CBIR has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built While these research e orts establish the basis of CBIR the usefulness of the proposed approaches is limited Speci cally these e orts have relatively ignored two distinct characteristics of CBIR systems the gap be...

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

Background: Parental bonding perception leads to the different domains of future life. The goal of this study was to investigate the predictive role of parental bonding perception types of communicational patterns of couples of Tehran. Methods: This research was a correlational and descriptive study. The study sample comprised of 338 individuals who voluntarily participated in the research in ...

objectives: conducting field tests of a vibrotactile aid for deaf/deafblind persons for detection, identification and directional perception of environmental sounds. methods: five deaf (3f/2m, 22–36 years) individuals tested the aid separately in a home environment (kitchen) and in a traffic environment. their eyes were blindfolded and they wore a headband and holding a vibrator for sound ident...