Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations (open access)

Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations

Article studying the elements that underlie political action strategies and tactics of trade and professional associations.
Date: November 7, 2019
Creator: Dicke, Lisa A.; Saitgalina, Marina & Birungi, Patricia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An acoustic analysis of American English liquids by adults and children: Native English speakers and native Japanese speakers of English (open access)

An acoustic analysis of American English liquids by adults and children: Native English speakers and native Japanese speakers of English

This article is a study investigating acoustic characteristics of American English liquids produced by native English (NE) and native Japanese (NJ) speakers reported in Aoyama, Flege, Guion, Akahane-Yamada, and Yamada [(2004). J. Phonetics 32, 233–250]. The secondary aim of the study is to compare the acoustic nature of English liquids between native speakers and Japanese L2 speakers of English. This work was presented at the 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America on June 25, 2017 in Boston, MA.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Aoyama, Katsura; Flege, James E.; Akahane-Yamada, Reiko & Yamada, Tsuneo
System: The UNT Digital Library
A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction (open access)

A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction

This article provides a literature review examining declarative and non-declarative forms of learning in neuroscience and psychology. The authors conclude that traditional taxonomy that distinguishes between neural systems supporting declarative and non-declarative forms of learning may be inadequate, as experimental and theoretical work suggests that other criteria may be more useful in categorizing the role of neural structures involved in learning such as the hippocampus and the basal ganglia.
Date: November 14, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele & Vaidya, Manish
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus (open access)

Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus

This article is a commentary on "A role for the medial temporal lobe in feedback-driven learning: evidence from amnesia" by Foerde, K., Race, E., Verfaellie, M.,and Shohamy, D. (2013). It covers the idea that environmental feedback plays an important role with respect to both basal ganglia and hippocampus based learning. Evidence that both the hippocampus and the striatum are involved in reinforcement learning is given. This article suggests that future research use a more precise measurement of the two structures’ sensitivities to delay. The general picture suggests that the basal ganglia and the hippocampus share overlapping sensitivity to reinforcement signals, although at a different timescale.
Date: August 1, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele; Skavhaug, Ida M. & Vaidya, Manish
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings (open access)

Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings

This article in the special issue Academy of Aphasia 2011 provides a short background for evaluating and critiquing frameworks for systematically accounting naturally occurring verbal emotional expression. It is assessed for its potential to enhance research and clinical operationalization of the verbal expression of emotion.
Date: October 5, 2011
Creator: Olness, Gloria Streit & Muñoz, Maria
System: The UNT Digital Library