Objectives: Mothers’ perception of their ability to parenting (maternal parenting self-efficacy) is a critical issue that influences their interactions with their preterm neonates. For better support of these mothers, a robust tool is needed which can measure mothers’ perception of their ability to understand and care for their preterm neonates as well as being sensitive to the various levels a...

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To determine whether motor difficulties documented in Asperger‟s Syndrome (AS) are related to compromised visual abilities, this study examined perception and movement in response to dynamic visual environments. Fourteen males with AS and 16 controls aged 7 to 23 completed measures of motor skills, postural response to optic flow, and visual sensitivity to static form and coherent motion in ran...

Time perception can be affected by real emotional pictures of people that evoke different levels of arousal. Figurative artwork images of body postures that imply movement with different intensities and evoke different levels of arousal can modulate the perception of time. The present study investigated whether abstract paintings that represent motion in different ways affect the perception of ...

While production studies of allophonic variation are now commonplace, we still do not have a clear understanding of how and if native speakers perceive subphonemic differences. This project experimentally investigates the perception of the variable process of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Spanish and shows that, while distinct from categorical perception, allophonic perception is displayed by lis...

In a perception experiment, L1 Mandarin and L1 Japanese novice learners of Korean classified non-tense /s/or tense /s*/initial Korean CV tokens. A mixed effects logistic regression model with acoustic cues as predictor variables was built for each L1 group, and each individual’s regression coefficients were interpreted to be the cue weighting used in identifying Korean /s/ and /s*/. We propose ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have a deficit in time perception. Twelve ASD children of normal intelligence and twelve typically developing children (TD) - matched on sex, chronological age, and mental age - performed four temporal bisection tasks that were adapted to the population. Two short (0.5 to 1 s and 1.25 to 2.5 s)...