Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech.

Researchers have generally assumed that listeners perceive speech compositionally, based on the combined processing of local acoustic-phonetic cues associated with individual linguistic units. Yet, these cue-based approaches have failed to fully account for variation in listeners' identification of the words produced by a talker (i.e.

Decoding speech intent from non-frontal cortical areas.

. Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) that can restore speech have predominantly focused on decoding speech signals from the speech motor cortices. A few studies have shown some information outside the speech motor cortices, such as in parietal and temporal lobes, that also may be useful for BMIs.

Syntax drives default language selection in bilingual connected speech production.

The present study investigated the role of syntactic processing in driving bilingual language selection. In two experiments, 120 English-dominant Spanish-English bilinguals read aloud 18 paragraphs with language switches. In Experiment 1a, each paragraph included eight switch words on function targets (four that repeated in every paragraph), and Experiment 1b was a replication with eight additional switches on content words in each paragraph.

Bacterial aggregation facilitates internalin-mediated invasion of .

Dissemination of food-borne in the host relies on internalin-mediated invasion, but the underlying invasion strategies remain elusive. Here we use live-cell microscopy to follow single cell interactions between individual human cells and and elucidate mechanisms associated with internalin B (InlB)-mediated invasion. We demonstrate that whilst a replicative invasion of nonphagocytic cells is a rare event even at high multiplicities of invasion, overcomes this by utilising a strategy relaying on PrfA-mediated ActA-based aggregation.