Primitive audiovisual integration of speech.

An unintelligible video recording of a face uttering a sentence and an unintelligible acoustic sinusoid following the frequency variation of a single vocal resonance of the utterance were intelligible when presented together at their veridical synchrony. The intelligibility resulted from audiovisual sensory integration and phonetic perceptual analysis, which depended neither on the separate resolution of linguistic impressions in each modality nor on closed-set reports about a single pair of minimal phonemic contrast features. Likewise, audiovisual integration could not be attributed to Gestalt-derived similarity principles applied unimodally or bimodally.

Factors Influencing Contact Force in Robotic Magnetic Navigation Ablation.

Introduction: Stability of catheter-tissue contact in the robotic magnetic navigation (RMN) system is one of the key features that distinguishes this system from manually guided catheters. Numerous studies have shown that contact force (CF) in manually controlled catheters is as crucial for forming an optimal lesion as the duration of application or power. Catheters used in the RMN system lack a quantitative method for intraoperative monitoring of this parameter.

COVID-19 subphenotypes at hospital admission are associated with mortality: a cross-sectional study.

Background: We have an incomplete understanding of COVID-19 characteristics at hospital presentation and whether underlying subphenotypes are associated with clinical outcomes and therapeutic responses.

Methods: For this cross-sectional study, we extracted electronic health data from adults hospitalized between 1 March and 30 August 2020 with a PCR-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 at five New York City Hospitals. We obtained clinical and laboratory data from the first 24 h of the patient's hospitalization.