Tuberculosis and Mental Health in the Asia-Pacific

Objective: This opinion piece encourages mental health researchers and clinicians to engage with mental health issues among tuberculosis patients in the Asia-Pacific region in a culturally appropriate and ethical manner. The diversity of cultural contexts and the high burden of tuberculosis throughout the Asia-Pacific presents significant challenges. Research into tuberculosis and mental illness in this region is an opportunity to develop more nuanced models of mental illness and treatment, while simultaneously contributing meaningfully to regional tuberculosis care and prevention. Conclusions: We overview key issues in tuberculosis and mental illness co-morbidity, highlight ethical concerns and advocate for a regional approach to tuberculosis and mental health that is consistent with the transnational challenges presented by this airborne infectious disease. Integrating tuberculosis and mental health services will go a long way to addressing the needs of vulnerable populations and stopping the transmission of one of the world’s biggest infectious killers. tuberculosis mental illness mental health depression psychosis Asia-Pacifi

Data for: Not all is Noticed: Kinematic Cues of Emotion-specific Gait

I had recorded actors expressing different basic emotions through their walking gait with a Vicon motion capture system. I then asked perceivers to identify the expressed emotion and rate the expressed emotional intensity of each point-light walker stimulus. After the experiment, I asked the perceivers to describe which walking cues they used to identify each emotion. I then used the most frequently reported identification strategies as a basis to drive the kinematic analyses from this dataset

Data for: Walking my Way? Walker Gender and Display Format Confounds the Perception of Specific Emotions

I recorded actors expressing different emotions through their walking gait with a Vicon motion capture system. I then created full-light and point-light stimuli of those recorded gaits and showed them to perceivers. I then used the results from the point-light experiment to extend Troje's (2002) methodology to construct synthetically modelled point-light walker stimuli and again showed them to perceivers. The emotion identification rates within this data set were calculated from raw scores to Hu and Hc scores (described in detail by Wagner, 1993), and then further to Ht rates

Moving with and Without Music: Scaling and Lapsing in Time in the Performance of Contemporary Dance

TIME-KEEPING AMONG DANCERS WAS INVESTIGATED by measuring a dancer's movement in the presence and absence of music. If an internal clock was at work, then change from the ideal would manifest as scaling---consistently faster or slower unaccompanied performance; if time differences were due to lapsing, then sections from the with-music condition would be deleted, or material would be inserted into the no-music condition. Motion was recorded during ensemble performances of a four-minute choreographed piece with and without music. The median of 24 markers in the height dimension was analyzed for scaling and lapsing. Twenty percent of the variance was accounted for by sporadic scaling. Lapses---insertions and deletions---accounted for nearly all the speeding up---10.45 of 14 s. As in musical performance of memorized material, lapsing rather than scaling accounted for timing variations. Automation of lapsing and scaling detection has application in the analysis of music and dance time series data

Message vs. messenger effects on cross-modal matching for spoken phrases

A core issue in speech perception and word recognition research is the nature of information perceivers use to identify spoken utterances across indexical variations in their phonetic details, such as talker and accent differences. Separately, a crucial question in audio-visual research is the nature of information perceivers use to recognize phonetic congruency between the audio and visual (talking face) signals that arise from speaking. We combined these issues in a study examining how differences between connected speech utterances (messages) versus between talkers and accents (messenger characteristics) contribute to recognition of crossmodal articulatory congruence between audio-only (AO) and video-only (VO) components of spoken utterances. Participants heard AO phrases in their native regional English accent or another English accent, and then saw two synchronous VO displays of point-light talking faces from which they had to select the one that corresponded to the audio target. The incorrect video in each pair was either the same or a different phrase as the audio target, produced by the same or a different talker, who spoke in either the same or a different English accent. Results indicate that cross-modal articulatory correspondence is more accurately and quickly detected for message content than for messenger details, suggesting that recognising the linguistic message is more fundamental than messenger features is to cross-modal detection of audio-visual articulatory congruency. Nonetheless, messenger characteristics, especially accent, affected performance to some degree, analogous to recent findings in AO speech research