This longitudinal study tracks prosodic changes in a single speaker with Parkinson's Disease over a year, finding decreased pitch variation and perceived speech healthiness over time.
Aug 1, 2019
This study examines how cochlear implant simulations affect the perception of L2 lexical stress, finding that Dutch listeners transfer their L1 stress identification strategies to L2 English.
Aug 1, 2019
We analyzed prosodic and segmental acoustic measures in spontaneous speech of Dutch Parkinson's Disease patients, finding monopitch trends, reduced speech rate, and vowel centralization compared to healthy controls.
Jun 1, 2018
We propose a Multi-strategy Differential Evolution algorithm that maintains a self-adaptive ensemble of search strategies, measuring agent performance to promote successful strategies within the ensemble.
Apr 1, 2018
We investigated how cognitive impairment affects vowel articulation in Parkinson's Disease patients, finding centralized vowel formants, increased frequency variability, and reduced intelligibility compared to healthy controls.
Sep 12, 2017
We developed an ontology to formally represent knowledge in Evolutionary Algorithms that can suggest efficient strategies for solving problems using Evolutionary Computation.
Apr 19, 2017
We studied the social impact of Musikiosk, an interactive sound system allowing users to play their own music in a Montreal park, finding it enhanced conviviality and social dynamics.
Aug 21, 2016
We investigated pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative sentences, finding that both languages show delays compared to previous research, with Frisian exhibiting stronger delay in focus realization.
Jun 1, 2016
This pilot experiment examines how different activities influence people's memories and descriptions of soundscapes, using psycholinguistic analysis of written descriptions.
Jun 1, 2015
This paper proposes a novel classification system for sounds that integrates both signal properties and human perception factors, organized into four categories: systemic, environmental, warning, and animal sounds.
May 31, 2015