Maternal singing and speech have beneficial effects on preterm infant’s general movements at term equivalent age and at 3 months: an RCT by Manuela Filippa, Gianluca Filippa, Elisa Della Casa, Alberto Berardi, Odoardo Picciolini, Sara Chiara Meloni, Clara Lunardi, Alessandra Cecchi, Alessandra Sansavini, Luigi Corvaglia, Luigi Corvaglia, Didier Grandjean, EVC Group, Fabrizio Ferrari

“…Integrating and supporting early vocal interaction into routine NICU care is crucial for at-risk populations.…”
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Nonparametric analysis of inter‐individual relations using an attention‐based neural network by Takashi Morita, Aru Toyoda, Seitaro Aisu, Akihisa Kaneko, Naoko Suda‐Hashimoto, Ikuma Adachi, Ikki Matsuda, Hiroki Koda

“…The flexibility of the neural network would also allow for its application to a wide variety of data with interacting components, such as vocal communication. ​…”
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Associations of Voice Metrics with Postural Function in Parkinson’s Disease by Anna Carolyna Gianlorenço, Valton Costa, Walter Fabris-Moraes, Paulo Eduardo Portes Teixeira, Paola Gonzalez, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Ciro Ramos-Estebanez, Arianna Di Stadio, Mirret M. El-Hagrassy, Deniz Durok Camsari, Tim Wagner, Laura Dipietro, Felipe Fregni

“…Background: This study aimed to explore the potential associations between voice metrics of patients with PD and their motor symptoms. Methods: Motor and vocal data including the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III (UPDRS-III), Harmonic–Noise Ratio (HNR), jitter, shimmer, and smoothed cepstral peak prominence (CPPS) were analyzed through exploratory correlations followed by univariate linear regression analyses. …”
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“I think we're on a cusp of some change:” coping and support for mental wellness among Black American women by Terika McCall, Terika McCall, Terika McCall, Meagan Foster, Holly Tomlin, Holly Tomlin, Bolatito Adepoju, Mckenzie Bolton-Johnson, Chyrell D. Bellamy

“…Notably, celebrities have become more vocal about their own mental health challenges and sought to normalize seeking care. …”
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Optimal Timing and Treatment Modalities of Arytenoid Dislocation and Subluxation: A Meta-Analysis by Andrea Frosolini, Valeria Caragli, Giulio Badin, Leonardo Franz, Patrizia Bartolotta, Andrea Lovato, Luca Vedovelli, Elisabetta Genovese, Cosimo de Filippis, Gino Marioni

“…<i>Background and Objective</i>: Arytenoid dislocation (AD) and subluxation (AS) impact vocal fold mobility, potentially affecting the quality of life. …”
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Paroxysmal Laryngospasm: A Rare Condition That Respiratory Physicians Must Distinguish from Other Diseases with a Chief Complaint of Dyspnea by Yu Bai, Xi-Rui Jing, Yun Xia, Xiao-Nan Tao

“…One patient with left vocal cord paralysis experienced complete relief after specialist treatment by an otorhinolaryngologist. …”
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A systematic approach to the recurrent laryngeal nerve dissection at the cricothyroid junction by Oleksandr Butskiy, Brent A. Chang, Kimberly Luu, Robert M. McKenzie, Donald W. Anderson

“…The rate of temporary and permanent vocal cord palsy was 9% (95% CI: 6–12%) and 0.3% (95%CI: 0.01–2%) respectively. …”
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The combined effectiveness of acoustic indices in measuring bird species richness in biodiverse sites in Cyprus, China, and Australia by Christos Mammides, Pan Wuyuan, Guohualing Huang, Rachakonda Sreekar, Christina Ieronymidou, Aiwu Jiang, Eben Goodale, Harris Papadopoulos

“…Passive acoustic monitoring methods, including acoustic indices, are emerging as a promising approach for surveying vocalizing animals. Numerous studies have assessed the effectiveness of acoustic indices in surveying animal communities, focusing mostly on birds and seven commonly used indices, yielding mixed results. …”
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Passive acoustic monitoring of an elusive rail, the corncrake (Crex crex): Calling patterns, detectability and monitoring recommendations by Andrea Parisi, Marie Greaney, John Carey, James Moran, Joanne O’Brien

“…Additionally, detectability according to weather variables and lunar fraction was assessed using a single-species occupancy model. We found marked vocal diel (hour, P < 0.001) and seasonal (date, P < 0.001) patterns. …”
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Misinterpretation of Psychiatric Illness in Deaf Patients: Two Case Reports by Ethan Anglemyer, Craig Crespi

“…Symptoms such as auditory hallucinations are not brought up in the same manner and are thought to be a visual construct interpreted by the patient as a vocal expression. It is imperative that these subtle differences are known in order to differentiate out an actual mental illness. …”
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The Assessment of Knowledge about Tourette’s Syndrome among Medical Students and Primary Physicians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Anas A. Alalwan, Mohammad A. Alkhamis, Ahmad M. Samman, Enan H. M. Alsharif, Omar E. M. Tarabzoni, Ismail A. Khatri

“…Tourette’s syndrome (TS), a chronic, often disabling neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics, is frequently misdiagnosed, or patients are delayed in diagnosis. …”
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Revisiting the speaker discriminatory power of vowel formant frequencies under a likelihood ratio-based paradigm: The case of mismatched speaking styles. by Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Anders Eriksson, Plinio A Barbosa, Sandra Madureira

“…This experimental study aimed to evaluate the speaker discriminatory power of vowel formants-resonance peaks in the vocal tract-in two different speaking styles: Dialogue and Interview. …”
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Efficient Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning for Improved Speech Signal-Based Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis via Machine Learning Techniques by Deepak Painuli, Suyash Bhardwaj, Utku Kose

“…However, recent studies indicate that over 90% of individuals with PD exhibit vocal abnormalities at the onset of the disease. …”
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Relationship Between Anxiety Symptoms and Age-Related Differences in Tic Severity by Lei T, Yang K, Jun J, Hu S, Yang Q, Hong X, Cui Y

“…Tianyuan Lei,1,2 Kai Yang,1,2 JinHyun Jun,1,2 Shujin Hu,1,2 Qinghao Yang,1,2 Xu Hong,3 Yonghua Cui1,2 1Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children’s Health, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Laboratory for Clinical Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Cloud Services Innovation Laboratory, Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yonghua Cui; Tianyuan Lei, Email cuiyonghua@bch.com.cn; tianyuanlei@bch.com.cnPurpose: Tic disorders are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by movements or vocalizations, often accompanied by anxiety symptoms. …”
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Insights into Corncrake (Crex crex) movements in a fragmented agricultural landscape using bioacoustics with implications for nature conservation strategies by Andrea Parisi, James Moran, John Carey, Joanne O'Brien

“…Individual identity was obtained through vocal characteristics of the calling males which were grouped into clusters. …”
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Successful awake intubation using Airtraq® in a low-resource setting for a patient with severe post-burn contractures by Simon Ponthus, Martina Odiakosa, Bertrand Gautier, Lionel Dumont

“…Case presentation Preoxygenation was performed, followed by topical anesthesia using lidocaine gargles and incremental spraying of lidocaine to the vocal cords via a feeding tube. The Airtraq® laryngoscope enabled glottic visualization despite limited neck mobility and challenging anatomy. …”
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Sonoridades urbanas y música catedralicia en Huamanga durante la transición del Virreinato a la República: 1797 – 1838 by Franco Giovanni Ayarza Chávez

“…Por otro lado, este territorio fue el escenario principal de la victoria de la Batalla de Ayacucho, en consecuencia, ello lleva a reflexionar y a cuestionar cómo fue aquel paisaje sonoro urbano y cómo se desarrollaron los estilos musicales ejecutados por su cuerpo instrumental y vocal más representativo: la capilla de música de la Catedral de Huamanga. …”
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Video-feedback intervention for promoting social engagement in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities by Rosario Montirosso, Serena Micheletti, Camilla Pisoni, Eleonora Mascheroni, Elisa Scarano, Elisa Scarano, Cecilia Naboni, Elisa Rosa, Annalisa Castagna, Margherita Bonino, Elisa Fazzi, Elisa Fazzi, Simona Orcesi, Simona Orcesi

“…Using the Global Rating Scale coding system (GRS), child behaviors (engagement and emotionality) and maternal behavior (sensitivity) were assessed during the FFSF.ResultsAnalyses of variance (ANOVA) indicated significant improvement post-intervention in child engagement in the Reunion episode, with an increase in mother-directed gaze communicative gestures and positive vocalization. A paired sample t-test revealed that the mother’s sensitivity significantly improves between T0 and T1 during the Reunion phase. …”
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Reliably quantifying the severity of social symptoms in children with autism using ASDSpeech by Marina Eni, Yaniv Zigel, Michal Ilan, Analya Michaelovski, Hava M. Golan, Gal Meiri, Idan Menashe, Ilan Dinstein

“…The algorithm was trained and tested on the largest ASD speech dataset available to date, which contained 99,193 vocalizations from 197 ASD children recorded in 258 Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second edition (ADOS-2) assessments. …”
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Whombat: An open‐source audio annotation tool for machine learning assisted bioacoustics by Santiago Martínez Balvanera, Oisin Mac Aodha, Matthew J. Weldy, Holly Pringle, Ella Browning, Kate E. Jones

“…Creating annotated bioacoustic datasets presents a number of challenges, such as managing large collections of recordings with associated metadata, developing flexible annotation tools that can accommodate the diverse range of vocalization profiles of different organisms and addressing the scarcity of expert annotators. …”
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