The current study investigated the cerebral basis of word perceptual repetition priming with fMRI during a letter detection task that manipulated the familiarity of perceptual word form and the number of repetitions. Some neuroimaging studies have reported increases, instead of decreases, in brain activations (called "repetition enhancement") associated with repetition priming of unfamiliar sti...

Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on generating end-to-end manner, which leads to difficulties mining the clear rhythm and semantics due complex subtle harmony between speech gestures. We present a novel gesture method that achieves convincing results both sem...

as known, repetition sometimes is considered improper in regular books. in spite of the fact that the holy quran is a miraculous book and repetition is not occurred in it without transcendental reasons, why there is so many repetitive verses in qur'an? assuming lack of spiritual repetition and that the only model of repetition in the quran is verbal repetition and the repetition is conside...

We present a corpus-based study of musical rhythm, based on a collection of 4.8 million bar-length drum patterns extracted from 48,176 pieces of symbolic music. Approaches to the analysis of rhythm in music information retrieval to date have focussed on low-level features for retrieval or on the detection of tempo, beats and drums in audio recordings. Musicological approaches are usually concer...

in arabic poetry, the device of repetition functions at two levels: form and meaning. in form, repetition makes for musical richness, and in meaning, it makes for emphasis. the present article is a study of repetition in “an address from the market of idleness” by palestinian poet samä«h al-qäsim. the poem depicts actual and possible palestinian sufferings inflicted by israelis and stresse...

A number of different cues allow listeners to perceive musical meter. Three experiments examined effects of melodic and temporal accents on perceived meter in excerpts from folk songs scored in 6/8 or 3/4 meter. Participants matched excerpts with 1 of 2 metrical drum accompaniments. Melodic accents included contour change, melodic leaps, registral extreme, melodic repetition, and harmonic rhyth...

Rhythm is a basic property of acoustic signals [1][2], with a presumed common basis for its perception grounded both in speech and music [3], hinting towards a similarity which can be tracked in the acoustic signals as well. For speech signals, rhythm analysis can provide relevant conclusions both with respect to linguistic questions (e.g. language rhythm typology) and for applications in speec...

Objective: Survival-to-discharge rates following in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) patients remain significantly low. The use of initial documented cardiac rhythm as predictor of Survival-to-discharge is still unclear. This study aimed to assess whether the initial documented rhythm can be used as a predictor of survival-to-discharge following IHCA in an emergency department of the tertiary car...