190 research outputs found
Voice processing abilities in children with autism, children with specific language impairments and young typically developing children
No full textIt is well established that people with autism have impaired face processing, but much less is known about voice processing in autism. Four experiments were therefore carried out to assess (1) familiar voice-face and sound-object matching; (2) familiar voice recognition; (3) unfamiliar voice discrimination; and (4) vocal affect naming and vocal-facial affect matching. In Experiments 1 and 2 language-matched children with specific language impairment (SLI) were the controls. In Experiments 3 and 4 language-matched children with SLI and young mainstream children were the controls. The results were unexpected: the children with autism were not impaired relative to controls on Experiments 1, 2 and 3, and were superior to the children with SLI on both parts of Experiment 4, although impaired on affect matching relative to the mainstream children. These results are interpreted in terms of an unexpected impairment of voice processing in the children with SLI associated partly, but not wholly, with an impairment of cross-modal processing. Performance on the experimental tasks was not associated with verbal or nonverbal ability in either of the clinical groups. The implications of these findings for understanding autism and SLI are discussed
Beyond statistical testing: individual differences and the contentand accuracy of mental representations of space
No full textThe article uses data from two experiments on the content and accuracy of mentalrepresentations of space by the blind and visually impaired in order expose some of theshortcomings of typical statistical testing and propose an individual differences approach to theanalysis of data. It begins with a discussion of some of the problems associated with the strictclassification and eventual comparison of individuals between groups. The individual differencesapproach is then presented and the concepts of ability and present competence are explored alongwith the importance of detailed participant description. Examples from the two experiments areused to demonstrate how null hypothesis significance testing can be complemented with effect sizeestimates, box-plots and ranking techniques. Throughout the article we are reminded of the need toadopt mutually supportive techniques to account for the heterogeneity of experience and skillsbetween participants. The article uses data from two experiments on the content and accuracy of mentalrepresentations of space by the blind and visually impaired in order expose some of theshortcomings of typical statistical testing and propose an individual differences approach to theanalysis of data. It begins with a discussion of some of the problems associated with the strictclassification and eventual comparison of individuals between groups. The individual differencesapproach is then presented and the concepts of ability and present competence are explored alongwith the importance of detailed participant description. Examples from the two experiments areused to demonstrate how null hypothesis significance testing can be complemented with effect sizeestimates, box-plots and ranking techniques. Throughout the article we are reminded of the need toadopt mutually supportive techniques to account for the heterogeneity of experience and skillsbetween participants
High noon : a new sequel to "Three weeks" /
No full textConjecturally attributed to Elinor Glyn, author of Three weeks.Mode of access: Internet
An Introduction to Elinor Glyn: Her Life and Legacy
No full textThis special issue of Women: A Cultural Review re-evaluates an author who was once a household name, beloved by readers of romance, and whose films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) was a British author of romantic fiction who went to Hollywood and became famous for her movies. She was a celebrity figure of the 1920s, and wrote constantly in Hearst's press. She wrote racy stories which were turned into films—most famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). These were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by others—Hollywood and the Spanish Catholic Church—as acceptably conservative. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred ‘flapper era’. Decades on, the idea of the ‘It Girl’ continues to have great pertinence in the post-feminist discourses of the twenty-first century. The 1910s and 1920s saw the development of intermodal networks between print, sound and screen cultures. This introduction to Glyn's life and legacy reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Glyn by film scholars and literary and feminist historians, and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research
Elinor Glyn: Intermedial Romance and Authorial Stardom
No full textThis chapter explores the career of bestselling author Elinor Glyn, a figure who
moved with relatively unique fluidity across a very broad spectrum of these different forms, as a writer, adapted and filmmaker. The chapter focuses on the underexplored final stage of her film career in the early 1930s in Britain. It delves into Glyn’s archives, considering how archival sources produce a new mapping of the strategies that she and her associates formulated to break into UK cinema culture, developed on the premise that one could create an intermedial star identity through popular culture, and through the manipulation of international discourses on femininity and romance. Such non-filmic traces and materials enlarge and illuminating Glyn’s star image, suggesting the framework that she was trying to construct around her films as a vehicle for her brand and ideas. While Glyn was not wholly unique as a literary/filmic star figure during this period, the chapter argues that the fluidity of her movement across diverse forms of labour, and her creation of new forms and modes of creative influence in cinema culture, offers a distinct new access point to understandings of women’s writing, film fictions and selfhood during this period.</p
The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation. (Brian Glyn Williams)
No full texthis article is the translation of Brian Glyn Williams`s work “The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation”. Brian Williams is the professor of history of Islam on the Chair of Massachusetts University in Dartmouth, the USA. The source is: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Third Series, Vol. 11, № 3, (Nov., 2001), pp. 329–348. The article considers the issue of the Crimean Tatar`s ethnogenesis, their communal identity, social-economic conditions of the activities. On the basis of the studied material, the author comes to conclusion of necessity of Crimean Tatar`s History Reinterpretation
Elinor Glyn’s British Talkies: voice, nationality and the author on screen
No full textExisting accounts of Elinor Glyn’s career have emphasised her substantial impact on early Hollywood. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to her less successful efforts to break into the UK film industry in the early sound period. This article addresses this underexplored period, focusing on Glyn’s use of sound in her two British films, Knowing Men (Elinor Glyn, Elinor Glyn Productions Ltd., 1930) and The Price of Things (Elinor Glyn, Elinor Glyn Productions Ltd., 1930). The article argues that Glyn’s British production practices reveal a unique strategy for reformulating her authorial stardom through the medium of the ‘talkie’. It explores how Glyn sought to exploit the specifically national qualities of the recorded English voice amidst a turbulent period in UK film production. The article contextualises this strategy in relation to Glyn’s business and personal archives, which evidence her attempts to refine her own speaking voice, alongside those of the screen stars whose careers she sought to develop for recorded sound. It suggests that the sound film was marked out as an important, exploitable new tool for Glyn within a broader context of debates about voice, recorded sound and nationality in UK culture at this time. This enabled her to portray a distinctively national brand identity through her new film work and surrounding publicity, in contrast to her appearances in American silent films. The article will show that recorded sound further allowed Glyn to performatively foreground her role as author-director through speaking cameos. This is analysed in relation to wider evidence of her practice, where she reflected on the performative qualities of the spoken voice in her writing and interviews, and made use of radio, newsreel and live performance to perfect and refine her own skills in recitation and oratio
Unusual colour forms of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Latreille) on Mull
No full textVolume: 24Start Page: 141End Page: 14
Urban Biodiversity: Successes and Challenges: Clydebank as a hotspot for the common pill woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare
No full textVolume: 25Start Page: 20End Page: 2
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