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"A Glimpse Into the Past"
Title
"A Glimpse Into the Past": Communication, Cultural Tourism, and the Political Economy of Modern Gullah Preservation.
Creator
Graves, Brian
Date Issued
2013-10-01
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1475787437
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Autonomic Nervous System Responses During Perception of Masked Speech may Reflect Constructs other than Subjective Listening Effort
Title
Autonomic Nervous System Responses During Perception of Masked Speech may Reflect Constructs other than Subjective Listening Effort.
Creator
Francis, Alexander L., MacPherson, Megan K., Chandrasekaran, Bharath, Alvar, Ann M.
Abstract/Description
Typically, understanding speech seems effortless and automatic. However, a variety of factors may, independently, or interactively, make listening more effortful. Physiological measures may help to distinguish between the application of different cognitive mechanisms whose operation is perceived as effortful. In the present study, physiological and behavioral measures associated with task demand were collected along with behavioral measures of performance while participants listened to and...
Show moreTypically, understanding speech seems effortless and automatic. However, a variety of factors may, independently, or interactively, make listening more effortful. Physiological measures may help to distinguish between the application of different cognitive mechanisms whose operation is perceived as effortful. In the present study, physiological and behavioral measures associated with task demand were collected along with behavioral measures of performance while participants listened to and repeated sentences. The goal was to measure psychophysiological reactivity associated with three degraded listening conditions, each of which differed in terms of the source of the difficulty (distortion, energetic masking, and informational masking), and therefore were expected to engage different cognitive mechanisms. These conditions were chosen to be matched for overall performance (keywords correct), and were compared to listening to unmasked speech produced by a natural voice. The three degraded conditions were: (1) Unmasked speech produced by a computer, speech synthesizer, (2) Speech produced by a natural voice and masked byspeech-shaped noise and (3) Speech produced by a natural voice and masked by two-talker babble. Masked conditions were both presented at a 8 dB signal to noise ratio (SNR), a level shown in previous research to result in comparable levels of performance for these stimuli and maskers. Performance was measured in terms of proportion of key words identified correctly, and task demand or effort was quantified subjectively by self-report. Measures of psychophysiological reactivity included electrodermal (skin conductance) response frequency and amplitude, blood pulse amplitude and pulse rate. Results suggest that the two masked conditions evoked stronger psychophysiological reactivity than did the two unmasked conditions even when behavioral measures of listening performance and listeners' subjective perception of task demand were comparable across the three degraded conditions.
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Date Issued
2016-03-01
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000371074900001, 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00263
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ISSAS Model
Title
The ISSAS Model: Understanding the Information Needs of Sexual Assault Survivors on College Campuses.
Creator
Skinner, Julia, Gross, Melissa
Abstract/Description
Sexual assault is a prevalent, yet underreported and stigmatizing crime that disproportionately affects college-age students. The literature of Library & Information Studies does not currently address the ways in which survivors may seek information after an assault. Blending findings from Psychology and LIS, this study proposes the Information Seeking of Sexual Assault Survivors (ISSAS) model, which examines the seeking process through various stages of healing. The article concludes with...
Show moreSexual assault is a prevalent, yet underreported and stigmatizing crime that disproportionately affects college-age students. The literature of Library & Information Studies does not currently address the ways in which survivors may seek information after an assault. Blending findings from Psychology and LIS, this study proposes the Information Seeking of Sexual Assault Survivors (ISSAS) model, which examines the seeking process through various stages of healing. The article concludes with directions for future research as well as insights on serving survivors within the academic library while being mindful of one’s appropriate professional role.
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Date Issued
2017-01-01
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1484250284, 10.5860/crl.78.1.23
Format
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Long-Term Average Spectra from a Youth Choir Singing in Three Vocal Registers and Two Dynamic Levels
Title
Long-Term Average Spectra from a Youth Choir Singing in Three Vocal Registers and Two Dynamic Levels.
Creator
Morris, Richard, Ternström, S. (Sten), LoVetri, Jeanette, Berkum, Dianne
Abstract/Description
Few studies have reported the acoustic characteristics of youth choirs. In addition, scant data are available on youth choruses making the adjustments needed to sing at different dynamic levels in different registers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to acoustically analyze the singing of a youth chorus to observe the evidence of the adjustments that they made to sing at two dynamic levels in three singing registers. The participants were 47 members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus who...
Show moreFew studies have reported the acoustic characteristics of youth choirs. In addition, scant data are available on youth choruses making the adjustments needed to sing at different dynamic levels in different registers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to acoustically analyze the singing of a youth chorus to observe the evidence of the adjustments that they made to sing at two dynamic levels in three singing registers. The participants were 47 members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus who sang the same song sample in head, mixed, and chest voice at piano and forte dynamic levels. The song samples were recorded and analyzed using long-term averaged spectra (LTAS) and related spectral measures. The spectra revealed different patterns among the registers. These differences imply that the singers were making glottal adjustments to sing the different register and dynamic level versions of the song. The duration of the closed phase as estimated from the amplitudes of the first two harmonics differed between the chest and head register singing at both dynamic levels. In addition the spectral slopes differed among all three registers at both dynamic levels. These acoustic measures may be a useful tool for evaluating some singing skills of young choristers.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
FSU_migr_csd_faculty_publications-0010, 10.1016/j.jvoice.2010.07.003
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Modeling listener perception of speaker similarity in dysarthria
Title
Modeling listener perception of speaker similarity in dysarthria.
Creator
Lansford, Kaitlin L., Berisha, Visar, Utianski, Rene L.
Abstract/Description
The current investigation contributes to a perceptual similarity-based approach to dysarthria characterization by utilizing an innovative statistical approach, multinomial logistic regression with sparsity constraints, to identify acoustic features underlying each listener's impressions of speaker similarity. The data-driven approach also permitted an examination of the effect of clinical experience on listeners' impressions of similarity. Listeners, irrespective of level of clinical...
Show moreThe current investigation contributes to a perceptual similarity-based approach to dysarthria characterization by utilizing an innovative statistical approach, multinomial logistic regression with sparsity constraints, to identify acoustic features underlying each listener's impressions of speaker similarity. The data-driven approach also permitted an examination of the effect of clinical experience on listeners' impressions of similarity. Listeners, irrespective of level of clinical experience, were found to rely on similar acoustic features during the perceptual sorting task, known as free classification. Overall, the results support the continued advancement of a similarity-based approach to characterizing the communication disorders associated with dysarthria. (C) 2016 Acoustical Society of America
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Date Issued
2016-06
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000379164900006, 10.1121/1.4954384
Format
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Peritext Book Club
Title
The Peritext Book Club: Reading to Foster Critical Thinking about STEAM Texts.
Creator
Gross, Melissa, Latham, Don, Underhill, Jennifer, Bak, Hyerin
Abstract/Description
An after-school book club, led by the school librarian, was held to test the efficacy of the peritextual literacy framework (PLF) in teaching skills related to critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy, and media literacy. The PLF is an extension of paratext theory developed by Gérard Genette, which provides a typology of the functions of peritext; this extension results in a framework that can be used for research or as a scaffold for teaching. Twelve middle school students...
Show moreAn after-school book club, led by the school librarian, was held to test the efficacy of the peritextual literacy framework (PLF) in teaching skills related to critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy, and media literacy. The PLF is an extension of paratext theory developed by Gérard Genette, which provides a typology of the functions of peritext; this extension results in a framework that can be used for research or as a scaffold for teaching. Twelve middle school students met once a month for five months to apply the PLF to an analysis of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) texts. The participants enjoyed the club and were able to demonstrate their ability to use peritextual elements to think critically about STEAM-related nonfiction books. Students were able to discuss how the functions of peritext affected their motivation to read a text and their ability to retrieve information from a text, and how peritext functions might affect their opinion of the credibility of information presented in a book.
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Date Issued
2016-11-16
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1484250799
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You Are What You Beat
Title
You Are What You Beat: Food Metaphors and Southern Black Identity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Goodie Mob's Soul Food.
Creator
Graves, Brian
Date Issued
2015-10-01
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1475787231
Format
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