positive dental attitudes for future visits.1 Despite improvements in pain medication, effective pain and anxiety control continues to be a challenge for the pediatric dentists, making children wanting to avoid dental treatment. Distracting the child appears to be the most common nonpharmacological technique used for behavior management during dental procedures. Distraction is the technique of ...

An audio-visual speaker identification system is described, where the audio and visual speech modalities are fused by an automatic unsupervised process that adapts to local classifier performance, by taking into account the output score based reliability estimates of both modalities. Previously reported methods do not consider that both the audio and the visual modalities can be degraded. The v...

Previous work suggests that musical training in childhood is associated with enhanced executive functions. However, it unknown whether this advantage extends to selective attention—another central aspect of control. We recorded a well-established event-related potential (ERP) marker distraction, the P3a, during an audio-visual task investigate maturation attention musically trained children and...

Research shows that attention is ineluctably captured away from a focal visual task by rare and unexpected changes (deviants) in an otherwise repeated stream of task-irrelevant auditory distractors (standards). The fundamental cognitive mechanisms underlying this effect have been the object of an increasing number of studies but their sensitivity to mood and emotions remains relatively unexplor...