scholarly journals Acoustic and Visual Stimulus Parameters Underlying Sound Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara M. List ◽  
Kelly McCormick ◽  
Simon Lacey ◽  
K. Sathian ◽  
Lynne C. Nygaard
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Composition ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Crossmodal Correspondences ◽  
Arbitrary Mapping ◽  
Simple Matching Coefficient ◽  
Stimulus Parameters ◽  
Speech Envelope ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTIt is often assumed that a fundamental property of language is the arbitrariness of the relationship between sound and meaning. Sound symbolism, which refers to non-arbitrary mapping between the sound of a word and its meaning, contradicts this assumption. Sensitivity to sound symbolism has been studied through crossmodal correspondences (CCs) between auditory pseudowords (e.g. ‘loh-moh’) and visual shapes (e.g. a blob). We used representational similarity analysis to examine the relationships between physical stimulus parameters and perceptual ratings that varied on dimensions of roundedness and pointedness, for a range of auditory pseudowords and visual shapes. We found that perceptual ratings of these stimuli relate to certain physical features of both the visual and auditory domains. Representational dissimilarity matrices (RDMs) of parameters that capture the spatial profile of the visual shapes, such as the simple matching coefficient and Jaccard distance, were significantly correlated with those of the visual ratings. RDMs of certain acoustic parameters of the pseudowords, such as the temporal fast Fourier transform (FFT) and spectral tilt, that reflect spectral composition, as well as shimmer and speech envelope that reflect aspects of amplitude variation over time, were significantly correlated with those of the auditory perceptual ratings. RDMs of the temporal FFT (acoustic) and the simple matching coefficient (visual) were significantly correlated. These findings suggest that sound-symbolic CCs are related to basic properties of auditory and visual stimuli, and thus provide insights into the fundamental nature of sound symbolism and how this might evoke specific impressions of physical meaning in natural language.

scholarly journals Are Tims hot and Toms not?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Front Vowel ◽  
Functional Feature ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Gender Group ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Back Vowel ◽  
The Relationship

Sound symbolism – the idea that there are motivated links between the sound of a word and its meaning has been established to be an existing phenomenon across different languages. Especially size sound symbolism seems to be a functional feature in many languages meaning that different types of vowels in words are associated with different physical size. Words with front vowels (e.g. little, tiny) are more likely to be used to indicate small physical size whereas words with back vowels (e.g. humungous, huge) are more likely to indicate large physical size. Because physical size plays an important role in ratings of attractiveness, we tested whether vowels in first names can influence how attractive the bearer of the name is perceived. In our experiment, participants saw faces paired with popular first names and rated the attractiveness of the depicted person. Masculine names were paired with pictures of men and feminine names with pictures of women. The names either contained a front or back vowel in the accented syllable and were within gender group randomly paired with pictures. We found that female raters preferred faces paired with back vowel names while male raters preferred faces paired with front vowel names, showing that the rater's gender – far more than the gender of the depicted person – determined the relationship between vowel quality and perceived attractiveness of faces. Our results confirm the role of sound symbolism in perception of attractiveness.

scholarly journals Physical features of reducing air pollution for the operating conditions of the drying drum of brick factories

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 01034
Author(s):  
Vadim Bespalov ◽  
Gennadiy Turk ◽  
Oksana Gurova
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Block Diagram ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Energy Concept ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the study of the process of reducing air pollution in relation to the operating conditions of the drying drum of brick factories. The objectives of the work were to study and identify the physical characteristics of the process of reducing air pollution for the operating conditions of the drying drum of brick factories, for its subsequent effective implementation with the help of engineering systems. A block diagram is suggested of the physical model of the process of reducing air pollution for the considered production and technological conditions, revealing the relationship of a set of consistently and purposefully implemented stages of the cycle of dusting, using physical and energy concept as the theoretical basis. As a result of the study of the process of reducing air pollution, in relation to the operating conditions of the drying drum of brick factories operation, based on the analysis of possible solutions of the problem of dusting, physical features of the process of reducing air pollution for these production and technological conditions were identified for its subsequent effective implementation by means of engineering systems.

scholarly journals Theoretical perspective on the route to turbulence in a pipe

2016 ◽  
Vol 803 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Barkley
Keyword(s):  
Pipe Flow ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Turbulent Pipe Flow ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Percolation Transition ◽  
Spatiotemporal Process ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Relationship

The route to turbulence in pipe flow is a complex, nonlinear, spatiotemporal process for which an increasingly clear understanding has emerged in recent years. This paper presents a theoretical perspective on the problem, focusing on what can be understood from relatively few physical features and models that encompass these features. The paper proceeds step-by-step with increasing detail about the transition process, first discussing the relationship to phase transitions and then exploiting an even deeper connection between pipe flow and excitable and bistable media. In the end a picture emerges for all stages of the transition process, from transient turbulence, to the onset of sustained turbulence in a percolation transition, to the modest and then rapid expansion of turbulence, ultimately leading to fully turbulent pipe flow.

scholarly journals On the Relationship(s) Between Color and Taste/Flavor

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Spence
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crossmodal Correspondences ◽  
Flavor Perception ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Experimental psychologists, psychophysicists, food/sensory scientists, and marketers have long been interested in, and/or speculated about, what exactly the relationship, if any, might be between color and taste/flavor. While several influential early commentators argued against there being any relationship, a large body of empirical evidence published over the last 80 years or so clearly demonstrates that the hue and saturation, or intensity, of color in food and/or drink often influences multisensory flavor perception. Interestingly, the majority of this research has focused on vision’s influence on the tasting experience rather than looking for any effects in the opposite direction. Recently, however, a separate body of research linking color and taste has emerged from the burgeoning literature on the crossmodal correspondences. Such correspondences, or associations, between attributes or dimensions of experience, are thought to be robustly bidirectional. When talking about the relationship between color and taste/flavor, some commentators would appear to assume that these two distinct literatures describe the same underlying empirical phenomenon. That said, a couple of important differences (in terms of the bidirectionality of the effects and their relative vs. absolute nature) are highlighted, meaning that the findings from one domain may not necessarily always be transferable to the other, as is often seemingly assumed.

Factors Correlated with Volleyball Spike Velocity

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513-1519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bénédicte Forthomme ◽  
Jean-Louis Croisier ◽  
Guido Ciccarone ◽  
Jean-Michel Crielaard ◽  
Marc Cloes
Keyword(s):  
Strength Performance ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Volleyball Players ◽  
Ball Velocity ◽  
Elbow Flexors And Extensors ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
High Level ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
External Rotator

Background Spike effectiveness represents a determining element in volleyball. To compete at a high level, the player must, in particular, produce a spike characterized by a high ball velocity. Hypothesis Some muscular and physical features could influence ball velocity during the volleyball spike. Study Design Descriptive laboratory study. Methods A total of 19 male volleyball players from the 2 highest Belgian national divisions underwent an isokinetic assessment of the dominant shoulder and elbow. Ball velocity performance (radar gun) during a spike test, morphological feature, and jump capacity (ergo jump) of the player were measured. We tested the relationship between the isokinetic parameters or physical features and field performances represented by spike velocity. We also compared first-division and second-division player data. Results Spike velocity correlated significantly with strength performance of the dominant shoulder (internal rotators) and of the dominant elbow (flexors and extensors) in the concentric mode. Negative correlations were established with the concentric external rotator on internal rotator ratio at 400 deg/s and with the mixed ratio (external rotator at 60 deg/s in the eccentric mode on internal rotator at 240 deg/s in the concentric mode). Positive correlations appeared with both the volleyball players’ jump capacity and body mass index. First-division players differed from second-division players by higher ball velocity and increased jump capacity. Conclusion Some specific strength and physical characteristics correlated significantly with spike performance in high-level volleyball practice. Clinical Relevance Our results could provide useful information for training management and propose some reflections on injury prevention.

scholarly journals Application of the Envelope Difference Index to Spectrally Sparse Speech

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 824-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Souza ◽  
Eric Hoover ◽  
Frederick Gallun
Keyword(s):  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Processing Strategy ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Spectral Cues ◽  
Amplitude Compression ◽  
Speech Envelope ◽  
Constrained Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Amplitude compression is a common hearing aid processing strategy that can improve speech audibility and loudness comfort but also has the potential to alter important cues carried by the speech envelope. In previous work, a measure of envelope change, the Envelope Difference Index (EDI; Fortune, Woodruff, & Preves, 1994), was moderately related to recognition of spectrally robust consonants. This follow-up study investigated the relationship between the EDI and recognition of spectrally sparse consonants. Method Stimuli were vowel-consonant-vowel tokens processed to reduce spectral cues. Compression parameters were chosen to achieve a range of EDI values. Recognition was measured for 20 listeners with normal hearing. Results Both overall recognition and perception of consonant features were reduced at higher EDI values. Similar effects were noted with noise-vocoded and sine-vocoded processing and regardless of whether periodicity cues were available. Conclusion The data provide information about the acceptable limits of envelope distortion under constrained conditions. These limits can be used to consider the impact of envelope distortions in situations where other cues are available to varying extents.

Health Supervision for Children With Fragile X Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Developmental Delay ◽  
Fragile X Syndrome ◽  
X Chromosome ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Fragile Site ◽  
Fragile X ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This set of guidelines is designed to assist pediatricians in caring for children with fragile X syndrome confirmed by DNA analysis (Table). Occasionally pediatricians are called on to advise a pregnant woman who has been informed of a prenatal diagnosis of fragile X syndrome. Therefore, guidelines are also offered for this situation. Fragile X syndrome is usually diagnosed during childhood and is characterized by developmental delay or mental retardation, characteristic physical features, and abnormal behavioral patterns.1,2 The distinctive fragile site on the X chromosome was first described in 1969 as a discontinuous site on the long arm of the X chromosome present after cell culture under folate-deficient conditions. In 1977 the relationship of this site to X-linked mental retardation was noted, and fragile X syndrome began to be defined. Since that time, the cytogenetic, molecular, and clinical features of the condition have been more clearly defined,3 and it is now recognized as the most common hereditary cause of mental retardation. Its frequency has been estimated to be approximately per 2500 to 1 per 1250 males and 1 per 5000 to 1 per 1600 females. The phenotype of fragile X syndrome in males often has a number of distinctive, recognizable features, including developmental delay or mental retardation, a prominent forehead, a long, thin face and a prominent jaw that appear late in childhood or early adolescence, large protuberant and slightly dysmorphic ears, and the presence of or ultimate development of macro-orchidism. This phenotype can be very subtle, is not always apparent, and becomes more identifiable with age.2

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