Medical records have become central to nearly all aspects of healthcare. However, little research exists on their creation. Using data from an ongoing ethnographic study of healthcare documentation production, this paper examines the process of medical record creation through the use of speech recognition technology (SRT) and subsequent editing by medical transcriptionists (MTs). Informed by et...

Swallowing—a complex physical process that involves closure of the mouth and nasal cavities, as well glottis, raising lowering larynx—is at boundary between speech body, yet almost nothing is known about how it works in conjunction with spoken interaction. Research into swallowing, mostly therapy, has explored articulations required, long takes bolus to pass through stomach, sounds occur on way...

How is human social intelligence engaged in the course of ordinary conversation? Standard models conversation hold that language production and comprehension are guided by constant, rapid inferences about what other agents have mind. However, idea mindreading a pervasive feature challenged large body evidence suggesting mental state attribution slow taxing, at least when it deals with propositi...

An investigation, in volunteers, into the sensory effects of nitrous oxide and methoxyflurane showed that the subjective changes of reduction in visual awareness and heightened auditory awareness were not supported by objective measurement. Vision remained normal until the subjects became unresponsive, whilst hearing was in fact diminished. The analgesia produced by nitrous oxide was late in ap...