Article
Acoustics
Seeon Kim, Hsiao-Hsiuan Chou, Xin Luo
Summary: Training with enhanced amplitude envelope could improve tone recognition for CI users, especially for those who attended more to amplitude envelope cues before training. Collaboration of auditory training and speech enhancement can bring maximum benefits to CI users.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
D. R. Quiroga-Martinez, B. Tillmann, E. Brattico, F. Cholvy, L. Fornoni, P. Vuust, A. Caclin
Summary: The study found that individuals with congenital amusia are sensitive to the uncertainty of melodic sequences, but exhibit pitch-specific impairments under conditions of high uncertainty.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Zhongzhe Xiao, Ying Chen, Weibei Dou, Zhi Tao, Liming Chen
Summary: In this paper, a Mandarin Chinese emotional tonal speech dataset MES-P is proposed, which includes both distal and proximal labels. The dataset allows studying human emotional intelligence and emotional misunderstandings in real life. It captures the features of tonal languages and provides emotional speech samples matching the tonal distribution in Mandarin. The dataset also features emotion intensity variations and shows high consistency between emotional intentions and perceptions.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jun Jiang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Liaoliao Chen, Cunmei Jiang
Summary: Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs explicit musical processing. This study investigated whether implicit knowledge could improve explicit musical processing in individuals with congenital amusia by utilizing redescription-associate learning. The results showed that trained amusics performed as well as controls at both the behavioral and neural levels, indicating the effectiveness of redescription-associate learning in remediating impaired explicit processes.
Article
Neurosciences
Xiao-Ying Zhang, Wei-Yong Yu, Wen-Jia Teng, Meng-Yang Lu, Xiao-Li Wu, Yu-Qi Yang, Chen Chen, Li-Xu Liu, Song-Huai Liu, Jian-Jun Li
Summary: Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) has a positive impact on the speech function of patients with aphasia and strokes, with fixed-pitch melodies and phrases providing a key to open the language pathway. Compared to speech therapy, music therapy-based MIT shows more effectiveness in the recovery of language function in patients with non-fluent aphasia.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Acoustics
Li Wang, Sanrong Xiao, Cunmei Jiang, Qingqi Hou, Alice H. D. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Fang Liu
Summary: Studies on how autistic individuals process tone and intonation in regards to form and function have mainly focused on speakers of non-tonal languages, with varying results. This study examined Mandarin-speaking autistic children and found that their abilities to discriminate tone and intonation were not impaired at either the form or function level. These abilities were positively associated with each other and were worse in autistic children with more severe symptoms of autism. However, enhanced tone and intonation processing may not be a general characteristic of the autistic population with long-term tone language experience.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Xiaoying Zhang, Jianjun Li, Yi Du
Summary: This review study focused on the intervention effect of Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) on patients with non-fluent aphasia in stroke recovery period. The findings showed that there is excessive behavioral measurement in MIT and insufficient evidence of MRI imaging structure. Further MRI studies are needed to determine the clinical evidence and intervention targets of MIT.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Fang Liu, Yanjun Yin, Alice H. D. Chan, Virginia Yip, Patrick C. M. Wong
Summary: Perceptual adaptation is an active cognitive process where listeners re-analyse speech categories based on new contexts/situations/talkers. Individuals with congenital amusia may have impaired perceptual adaptation in lexical tone perception.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Ana Haro-Martinez, Carmen M. Perez-Araujo, Juan M. Sanchez-Caro, Blanca Fuentes, Exuperio Diez-Tejedor
Summary: This study updated the evidence on the efficacy of Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for non-fluent post-stroke aphasia. The results showed a significant improvement in functional communication and repetition tasks with MIT, although no significant effects were found in comprehension measurements. Future research should focus on larger randomized clinical trials to determine the definitive efficacy of MIT on post-stroke aphasia recovery.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jiaqiang Zhu, Xiaoxiang Chen, Fei Chen, Caicai Zhang, Jing Shao, Seth Wiener
Summary: This study investigated whether adult Chinese-speaking listeners with amusia were able to learn Thai lexical tones through distributional learning. The results showed that individuals with amusia were less accurate in discriminating Thai lexical tones compared to typical listeners. However, amusics showed perceptual gains from pretest to posttest in bimodal distribution conditions, suggesting that they are still capable of learning lexical tones despite their impairment in pitch processing.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Shiau-Ru Yang, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Chin-Teng Lin, Kuan-Chih Huang, Chun-Shu Wei, Herming Chiueh, Yue-Loong Hsin, Guan-Ting Liou, Li-Chun Wang
Summary: The focus of the research is to determine whether EEG signals can distinguish between spoken Mandarin sentences with or without tone. By using the BRCSpeech database and RASM feature extraction method, the study achieved high accuracy in cross-subject classification, which could help develop a tonal language synthesis system based on BCI in the future.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Soheila Samiee, Dominique Vuvan, Esther Florin, Philippe Albouy, Isabelle Peretz, Sylvain Baillet
Summary: Processing auditory sequences involves multiple brain networks and is crucial to complex perception associated with music appreciation and speech comprehension. Our study used time-resolved cortical imaging to investigate the underlying nature of brain network activity and revealed cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex. By studying individuals with congenital amusia, we demonstrated the relevance of these findings to behavior and altered function in processing sound sequences.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tudor Popescu, Benjamin Stahl, Brenton M. Wiernik, Felix Haiduk, Michaela Zemanek, Hannah Helm, Theresa Matzinger, Roland Beisteiner, W. Tecumseh Fitch
Summary: Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is an effective rehabilitation program for individuals with post-stroke aphasia. The meta-analysis shows that MIT has a moderate effect on noncommunicative language expression, but there is uncertainty in validated outcomes. Unvalidated outcomes show a larger effect size for MIT compared to validated tests. The effectiveness of MIT decreases with the number of months post-stroke, suggesting the influence of spontaneous recovery. Deviation from the original MIT protocol does not significantly alter the treatment benefit, and progress in validated tests mainly comes from gains in repetition tasks.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Peng Li, Yuan Zhang, Florence Baills, Pilar Prieto
Summary: This study explores the predictive role of musical perception skills and working memory on phonetic language abilities for speakers of Catalan and Chinese. The results show that musical perception skills can predict speech imitation accuracy, while working memory cannot. Additionally, different components of musical perception skills have different predictive roles for different languages.
LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Mari Tervaniemi
Summary: Over the past two decades, studies in the neuroscience of music have shifted from well-controlled experimental research to more naturalistic and ecologically valid paradigms. This article introduces this shift in terms of sound stimulation, empirical paradigms, study participants, and methods of data acquisition. The aim is to provide a historical overview of the field's development and stimulate innovative thinking to enhance the ecological validity of studies while maintaining experimental rigor.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Siqi You, Lijun Sun, Yufang Yang
Summary: This study investigated the effects of contextual certainty on the induction and resolution of musical tension using EEG and behavioral rating. The results showed that contextual certainty influenced the induction and resolution of tension, as measured by brain responses and behavioral ratings.
COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Qian Zhang, Cong Mou, Xiaohong Yang, Yufang Yang, Lin Li
Summary: This study investigated the effect of contextual arousal on emotional word integration. The results showed that inconsistent emotional words elicited larger ERP effects in high-arousal context, while only one ERP effect was observed in low-arousal context. The findings suggest that contextual arousal plays an important role in the processing of emotional words.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Li Wang, Jia Hoong Ong, Emmanuel Ponsot, Qingqi Hou, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Summary: This study used a novel data-driven method to explore the differences in pitch processing in autism spectrum disorder. The results showed that autistic individuals and non-autistic individuals have similar mental representations of pitch contours, but autistic individuals exhibit higher intra-group variability. These findings reveal qualitative differences and similarities in pitch processing between autistic and non-autistic individuals.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yufang Yang, Xiaoshuang Zhang, Dongxue Li, Rong Fang, Zishan Wang, Di Yun, Mo Wang, Jinghui Wang, Hongtian Dong, Zhaoliang Fei, Qing Li, Zhaolin Liu, Chenye Shen, Jian Fei, Mei Yu, Thomas Behnisch, Fang Huang
Summary: NRSF/REST is important for memory performance and synaptic plasticity during aging, but its specific functions in age-dependent and Alzheimer's disease-related memory deficits are still unclear.
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Dashe Li, Xuan Zhang, Yufang Yang, Huanhai Yang, Shue Liu
Summary: A new interpretable deep learning method is proposed in this study for accurately forecasting water quality parameters. The method utilizes decomposed feature data and parallel structure stacks to capture the features of decomposed sequences. A new attention mechanism and an enhanced double residual temporal convolutional network block module are also introduced. The results show that the proposed model outperforms other algorithms in terms of MAE, RMSE, MAPE, and R2, providing a valuable framework for investigating water quality forecast in marine ranches.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Xiang Gao, Yufang Yang, Fang Zhang, Fan Zhou, Junming Zhu, Jie Sun, Kedi Xu, Yaowu Chen
Summary: Automatic detection of epileptic seizures is important in epilepsy control and treatment. We developed a feature extraction method based on multi-site synchronous changes and an edge detection algorithm for accurate seizure detection. The experimental results show that synchronization is an appropriate feature for seizure detection.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yufang Yang, Fang Zhang, Xiang Gao, Linqing Feng, Kedi Xu
Summary: This study investigated the changes in spatiotemporal electrophysiological characteristics of refractory temporal lobe epilepsy using animal models. The results showed that as the epilepsy progressed, the seizure onset zone was more frequently detected in the hippocampus, the latency of seizure onsets between electrodes became shorter, and low-voltage fast activity became the most common seizure onset pattern and increased in proportion. Additionally, seizure detection classifiers trained with early-stage data showed decreased accuracy in late-stage data. These findings are significant for the treatment of epilepsy and the design of neuromodulation parameters.
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Fang Zhang, Yufang Yang, Yanjie Xin, Yuting Sun, Chang Wang, Junming Zhu, Tao Tang, Jianmin Zhang, Kedi Xu
Summary: Studying the effects of responsive stimulation in a rat model of epilepsy can provide insights into the therapeutic mechanisms and guide parameter optimization. Understanding the correlation between seizure severity and synchronization can help simplify the evaluation process.
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Immunology
Zhaolin Liu, Chenye Shen, Heng Li, Jiabin Tong, Yufei Wu, Yuanyuan Ma, Jinghui Wang, Zishan Wang, Qing Li, Xiaoshuang Zhang, Hongtian Dong, Yufang Yang, Mei Yu, Jian Wang, Renyuan Zhou, Jian Fei, Fang Huang
Summary: Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by neuronal degeneration and neuroinflammation. This study found that NLRC5 expression is increased in PD mouse models and in astrocytes, microglia, and neurons exposed to neurotoxic stimuli. NLRC5 deficiency reduced dopaminergic degeneration and inflammation, suppressed NF-kappa B and MAPK signaling pathways, and promoted AKT-GSK-3 beta and AMPK signaling. Furthermore, NLRC5 deficiency increased neuron survival and NF-kappa B and AKT activation. NLRC5 may serve as a marker of glial activation in PD patients.
JOURNAL OF NEUROINFLAMMATION
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jun Jiang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Liaoliao Chen, Cunmei Jiang
Summary: Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs explicit musical processing. This study investigated whether implicit knowledge could improve explicit musical processing in individuals with congenital amusia by utilizing redescription-associate learning. The results showed that trained amusics performed as well as controls at both the behavioral and neural levels, indicating the effectiveness of redescription-associate learning in remediating impaired explicit processes.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jinfeng Ding, Panpan Liang, Xinyu Guo, Yufang Yang
Summary: This study investigated the impact of abstract and concrete concepts on reading acquisition and semantic memory. It was found that abstract novel words were more difficult to acquire during contextual reading, while concrete novel words were better remembered in memory tasks. The results suggest that both abstract and concrete novel words can be integrated into semantic memory through thematic relations.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Acoustics
Li Wang, Sanrong Xiao, Cunmei Jiang, Qingqi Hou, Alice H. D. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Fang Liu
Summary: Studies on how autistic individuals process tone and intonation in regards to form and function have mainly focused on speakers of non-tonal languages, with varying results. This study examined Mandarin-speaking autistic children and found that their abilities to discriminate tone and intonation were not impaired at either the form or function level. These abilities were positively associated with each other and were worse in autistic children with more severe symptoms of autism. However, enhanced tone and intonation processing may not be a general characteristic of the autistic population with long-term tone language experience.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dashe Li, Yufang Yang, Siwei Zhao, Huanhai Yang
Summary: This paper proposes a convolutional neural network-based image segmentation model for underwater fish images. It includes a fish image preprocessing method and a multiscale attentional feature extraction module. Experimental results show that this model achieves better segmentation performance than traditional models, providing a theoretical basis for intelligent monitoring and assessment in aquaculture.
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Xiaolei Wang, Renxin Deng, Yufang Yang
Summary: This study analyzes the factors influencing overcapacity and capacity utilization in China's iron & steel industry. The research finds that factor price distortion is an important factor affecting capacity utilization, with capital and energy price distortion having a negative impact, while labor price distortion has a positive promoting effect. Additionally, the study also indicates that capacity utilization is influenced by previous utilization rates and rates in neighboring provinces.
Article
Psychology
Haiyang Jin, Qing Wang, Yu-Fang Yang, Han Zhang, Mengyu (Miranda) Gao, Shuxian Jin, Yanxiu (Sharon) Chen, Ting Xu, Yuan-Rui Zheng, Ji Chen, Qinyu Xiao, Jinbiao Yang, Xindi Wang, Haiyang Geng, Jianqiao Ge, Wei-Wei Wang, Xi Chen, Lei Zhang, Xi-Nian Zuo, Hu Chuang-Peng
Summary: Open Science is gaining popularity in psychology and related fields, but researchers in developing countries, especially early-career researchers, face obstacles in embracing Open Science. To address this in China, the Chinese Open Science Network (COSN) was established in 2016. COSN, with its grassroots-oriented, diverse, and inclusive values, has grown into a recognized network in the Chinese-speaking research community and international Open Science community. It has organized workshops, tutorials, talks, and journal club sessions, and translated Open Science-related articles. COSN has a strong online presence and active participation from researchers and students.
ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
