Experimental Demonstration of the Tomatotopic Organization in the Soprano (Cantatrix sopranica L.)

What Does Cerebral Oxygenation Tell Us About Central Motor Output?

“…For instance, Miyai et al (2001) were able to compare cerebral activities evoked during gait, alternating foot movements, arm swing and motor imagery of gait. Gait-related responses along the central sulcus were medial and caudal to activity associated with arm swing, in agreement with the known somatotopic organisation of the motor cortex (Perec, 1974). Crucially, these authors showed that walking increased cerebral activity bilaterally in the medial primary sensori-motor cortices and the supplementary motor area, and to a greater extent than the alternation of foot movements.…”

Missing-data model of vowel identification

“…Sundberg ͑1982͒ states that steady-state sung vowels retain a degree of intelligibility up to 520 Hz ͑or even 1000 Hz in consonant-vowel-consonant ͑CVC͒ context͒. The problem of vowel perception at high F 0 has been recognized by many authors ͑Carlson et al., 1975;Carré and Lancia, 1975;Traunmüller, 1981Traunmüller, , 1990Bladon, 1982;Ryalls and Lieberman, 1982;Klatt, 1982;Darwin and Gardner, 1985;Gottfried and Chew, 1986;Assmann and Neary, 1987;Beddor and Hawkins, 1990;Perec, 1991;Assmann, 1991;Hirahara and Kato, 1992;Hirahara, 1993;Rosner and Pickering, 1994;Hirahara et al, 1996͒. Two qualifications must be made. The first is that in natural speech vowels are rarely sustained.…”

Editorial

“…So we, too, have chosen to adopt a more standardised norm for references, in the so-called Chicago style (author date), which begins with this issue. This format will cut down on prepublication work and will facilitate automatic referencing on the various databases, which is indispensable for gaining exposure for the articles (for a literary view of this, see Perec 2007).…”