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Disinformation is multiplied through social networks, and many hoaxes show Russian interests, to the extent that the US and the European Union qualify RT and Sputnik as media outlets for the circulation of false facts. This research aims to identify the disinformation generated by RT and Sputnik related to Ecuador in audiovisual media and social networks. The methodology is qualitative and quantitative, descriptive in scope. It is evident that Russian disinformation is present in the country, especially online. It is important to promote media literacy and open a debate on regulation that promotes freedom of expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Face-to-face speech communication is an audiovisual process during which the interlocuters use both the auditory speech signals as well as visual, oral articulations to understand the other. These sensory inputs are merged into a single, unified process known as multisensory integration. Audiovisual speech integration is known to be influenced by many factors, including listener experience. In this study, we investigated the roles of bilingualism and language experience on integration. We used a McGurk paradigm in which participants were presented with incongruent auditory and visual speech. This included an auditory utterance of ‘ba’ paired with visual articulations of ‘ga’ that often induce the perception of ‘da’ or ‘tha’, a fusion effect that is strong evidence of integration, as well as an auditory utterance of ‘ga’ paired with visual articulations of ‘ba’ that often induce the perception of ‘bga’, a combination effect that is weaker evidence of integration. We compared fusion and combination effects on three groups ( N = 20 each), English monolinguals, Spanish–English bilinguals, and Arabic–English bilinguals, with stimuli presented in all three languages. Monolinguals exhibited significantly stronger multisensory integration than bilinguals in fusion effects, regardless of the stimulus language. Bilinguals exhibited a nonsignificant trend by which greater experience led to increased integration as measured by fusion. These results held regardless of whether McGurk presentations were presented as stand-alone syllables or in the context of real words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVE: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, hospital visitation restrictions hindered patients' access to vital social support. This study explores the impact and feasibility of a student-led program facilitating audiovisual communication between inpatient rehabilitation patients and their caregivers. METHODS: The study design employed a prospective observational approach, and convenience sampling enrolled 99 participants, including 33 patients, 33 caregivers, and 33 medical students. From September 2021 to March 2022, eligible patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital identified a caregiver and participated in a 30-minute audiovisual call organized by a medical student. Post-visit surveys via RedCap were completed by all participants and covered limitations in video calls, program benefits, comfort levels in video conferencing, and overall program ratings. The study adopted a quantitative research paradigm for data analysis. Statistical analysis utilized pairwise McNemar's and Wilcoxon's test for inter-group comparison. RESULTS: Patients, caregivers, and medical students all reported positive outcomes in program offerings including providing social support, decreasing feelings of isolation, and providing a feeling of connection. Patients rated the program 4.82 ± 0.47 on a Likert scale, with 97% recommending it to others, even beyond visitation restrictions. The most common diagnosis among patients was stroke (30%), highlighting the program's potential applicability across diverse patient populations. Caregivers rated the program 4.59 ± 0.87 and expressed a desire for its continuation post-restrictions (80%). Medical students (81%) recommended the program, citing benefits in reducing social isolation and gaining clinical experience. No statistical differences were observed between groups in emotional and humanistic domains. CONCLUSION: This study highlights the potential for programs to utilize technology to address social isolation in the healthcare setting. When public health restrictions occur, medical educators should consider opportunities to support and foster innovation for student-led programs. Further research should explore broader impacts on healthcare outcomes and medical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been proposed that autistic people experience a temporal distortion whereby the temporal binding window of multisensory integration is extended. Research to date has focused on autistic children so whether these differences persist into adulthood remains unknown. In addition, the possibility that the previous observations have arisen from between-group differences in response bias, rather than perceptual differences, has not been addressed. Participants completed simultaneity judgements of audiovisual speech stimuli across a range of stimulus-onset asynchronies. Response times and accuracy data were fitted to a drift-diffusion model so that the drift rate (a measure of processing efficiency) and starting point (response bias) could be estimated. In Experiment 1, we tested a sample of non-autistic adults who completed the Autism Quotient questionnaire. Autism Quotient score was not correlated with either drift rate or response bias, nor were there between-group differences when splitting based on the first and third quantiles of scores. In Experiment 2, we compared the performance of autistic with a group of non-autistic adults. There were no between-group differences in either drift rate or starting point. The results of this study do not support the previous suggestion that autistic people have an extended temporal binding window for audiovisual speech. In addition, exploratory analysis revealed that operationalising the temporal binding window in different ways influenced whether a group difference was observed, which is an important consideration for future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The restrictions of the pandemic forced the idea of an information system that integrated remote public participation in a live television show. The existing mechanisms were then too rigid, of poor audiovisual quality, and had an excessive and unsustainable delay between emission and reception for real-time television interaction. The creation of the Virtual Audience System (VAS) proposed the use of the most recent technology in areas such as cloud and edge computing, lowlatency audio and video transmission, interactive communication in the web environment, and the creation of immersive binaural sound to overcome the limitations of the moment. With these new technological elements, a new system of transmission and reception of audiovisual information was developed that allows the adaptation and scalability of media production to the type of event broadcasted and its audience with a minimum investment and, at the same time, generates a new concept of audience appropriate for the 21st century. The Virtual Audience System enables interactive and synchronized participation in live entertainment shows and, at the same time, allows the creation of remote virtual participants while guaranteeing a real and immersive experience for the user. The WebRTC, RTMP and SRT technology used, which is already popular and has universal compatibility; the low latency achieved, which is below two seconds for the complete cycle; and the immersive sensation of the audience--everything together predicts that this system can soon transform the television production methodology of shows with live audience participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Congruent visual speech improves speech perception accuracy, particularly in noisy environments. Conversely, mismatched visual speech can alter what is heard, leading to an illusory percept that differs from the auditory and visual components, known as the McGurk effect. While prior transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and neuroimaging studies have identified the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) as a causal region involved in the generation of the McGurk effect, it remains unclear whether this region is critical only for this illusion or also for the more general benefits of congruent visual speech (e.g., increased accuracy and faster reaction times). Indeed, recent correlative research suggests that the benefits of congruent visual speech and the McGurk effect rely on largely independent mechanisms. To better understand how these different features of audiovisual integration are causally generated by the left pSTS, we used single-pulse TMS to temporarily disrupt processing within this region while subjects were presented with either congruent or incongruent (McGurk) audiovisual combinations. Consistent with past research, we observed that TMS to the left pSTS reduced the strength of the McGurk effect. Importantly, however, left pSTS stimulation had no effect on the positive benefits of congruent audiovisual speech (increased accuracy and faster reaction times), demonstrating a causal dissociation between the two processes. Our results are consistent with models proposing that the pSTS is but one of multiple critical areas supporting audiovisual speech interactions. Moreover, these data add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the McGurk effect is an imperfect surrogate measure for more general and ecologically valid audiovisual speech behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on multisensory perception often focus on simplistic conditions in which one single stimulus is presented per modality. Yet, in everyday life, we usually encounter multiple signals per modality. To understand how multiple signals within and across the senses are combined, we extended the classical audio‐visual spatial ventriloquism paradigm to combine two visual stimuli with one sound. The individual visual stimuli presented in the same trial differed in their relative timing and spatial offsets to the sound, allowing us to contrast their individual and combined influence on sound localization judgements. We find that the ventriloquism bias is not dominated by a single visual stimulus but rather is shaped by the collective multisensory evidence. In particular, the contribution of an individual visual stimulus to the ventriloquism bias depends not only on its own relative spatio‐temporal alignment to the sound but also the spatio‐temporal alignment of the other visual stimulus. We propose that this pattern of multi‐stimulus multisensory integration reflects the evolution of evidence for sensory causal relations during individual trials, calling for the need to extend established models of multisensory causal inference to more naturalistic conditions. Our data also suggest that this pattern of multisensory interactions extends to the ventriloquism aftereffect, a bias in sound localization observed in unisensory judgements following a multisensory stimulus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ability to detect the absolute location of sensory stimuli can be quantified with either error-based metrics derived from single-trial localization errors or regression-based metrics derived from a linear regression of localization responses on the true stimulus locations. Here we tested the agreement between these two approaches in estimating accuracy and precision in a large sample of 188 subjects who localized auditory stimuli from different azimuthal locations. A subsample of 57 subjects was subsequently exposed to audiovisual stimuli with a consistent spatial disparity before performing the sound localization test again, allowing us to additionally test which of the different metrics best assessed correlations between the amount of crossmodal spatial recalibration and baseline localization performance. First, our findings support a distinction between accuracy and precision. Localization accuracy was mainly reflected in the overall spatial bias and was moderately correlated with precision metrics. However, in our data, the variability of single-trial localization errors (variable error in error-based metrics) and the amount by which the eccentricity of target locations was overestimated (slope in regression-based metrics) were highly correlated, suggesting that intercorrelations between individual metrics need to be carefully considered in spatial perception studies. Secondly, exposure to spatially discrepant audiovisual stimuli resulted in a shift in bias toward the side of the visual stimuli (ventriloquism aftereffect) but did not affect localization precision. The size of the aftereffect shift in bias was at least partly explainable by unspecific test repetition effects, highlighting the need to account for inter-individual baseline differences in studies of spatial learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The format of the live audiovisual interview, through the Twitch livestream platform, becomes an effective and invaluable tool for learning journalistic skills and deepening the informative task through professional experience, thanks to the testimonies of prominent radio and television communicators, who also show their human side. In addition, the content of the Audiovisual Journalism course at the University CEU San Pablo has been updated. A collaborative methodology in which students participate in writing and conducting interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O trabalho tem como objetivo estudar as mudanças do mercado audiovisual infantil e o uso da literacia midiática nestas produções. Para isso, foi escolhida a série Storybots: Hora da Resposta, lançada pela Netflix em 2022, como objeto de análise, levando em consideração sua relevância e impacto no público infantil. Fez-se necessário compreender as mudanças na produção, consumo e na qualidade dessas produções infantis e da aplicabilidade da literacia midiática como ferramenta em séries com viés educacional e de como isto impacta as crianças através da interatividade e da informação levada de forma lúdica e atrativa, com o objetivo de compreender como é aplicado e se é realmente efetiva a utilização da literacia nesses produtos audiovisuais. A pesquisa tem como autores principais: Livingstone (2004 e 2007), Gerhardt (2009) e Scolari (2016). Ao longo do trabalho percebeu-se que as produções infantis utilizam da literacia para se aproximar, empoderar e educar o seu público com produções cada vez mais interativas e lúdicas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering both cinema and sport as manifestations arising from Modernity, this text proposes to discuss the representation of sport in cinema from the modern context and to open a dialogue in contrast with contemporary pedagogical possibilities. The research is descriptive with a qualitative approach and is organized in two moments. In the first, he uses the sociology of sport and communication as a theoretical framework that guides the critical reading of the film Olympia (1938). The second narrates and discusses a pedagogical experience in high school. The reflections point to feedback from cinema and sport for the affirmation of values cultivated in modernity, such as speed and rationality, but also for the reconstruction of meanings, via student authorship, which is in line with the current educational policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text explores Korpelarörelsen, a Black Metal band that presents an audiovisual performance depicting a religious movement in Tornedalen during the early 20th century. In 2020 they received prolific funding from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee to conceive, rehearse and tour with the band. The article describes the band's unique portrayal of local history through the use of black metal music, while also discussing the boundaries between art and music, its implications for arts funding and the Black Metal genre's position in cultural hierarchies. The study draws on interviews, concert observations, and analysis of applications and documents outlining the funding decision from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. The historic religious Korpela movement has been described as a doomsday cult, which believed that practicing music and dance, extrovert “childlike behavior” and even nudity and free sex, was the path to salvation. The band Korpelarörelsen depicts this through raw Black Metal, atmospheric elements, spoken word passages, and peculiar onstage-rituals. Visual aesthetics, including black robes, corpse paint, and blood-like smears, contributed to the atmosphere of mystique, darkness, and death. Korpelarörelsen’s application for cultural funding strategically positioned the project as a collaboration between various art forms and emphasized the interaction between Black Metal aesthetics and music industry methods. Korpelarörelsen's innovative approach and funding success might offer possibilities for extreme music within culturally funded systems. This case study demonstrates how a Black Metal band from Tornedalen could potentially have cultural and political impact and pave the way for other extreme music groups seeking recognition and support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a review of the perspective of mediations of Latin American Cultural Studies for research on audiovisual reception via streaming carried out in the context of platformization and modulation by algorithms. First, it contextualizes the subscription VoD market and its implications for the audience. It then summarizes some criticisms, in the field of reception, of the use of the idea of mediations in Martín-Barbero, suggesting a closer approach to EPC as a contribution to the questions raised. Finally, in a general critique of public policies for the segment, it defends the importance of subjects/users in the elaboration of regulation for the sector, concluding with reception studies as a tool in this sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sound-based trajectories or sound gestures draw links to spatiokinetic processes. For instance, a gliding, decreasing pitch conveys an analogous downward motion or fall. Whereas the gesture's pitch orientation and range convey its meaning and magnitude, respectively, the way in which pitch changes over time can be conceived of as gesture shape, which to date has rarely been studied in isolation. This article reports on an experiment that studied the perception of shape in uni-directional pitch, loudness, and tempo gestures, each assessed for four physical scalings. Gestures could increase or decrease over time and comprised different frequency and sound level ranges, durations, and different scaling contexts. Using a crossmodal-matching task, participants could reliably distinguish between pitch and loudness gestures and relate them to analogous visual line segments. Scalings based on equivalent-rectangular bandwidth (ERB) rate for pitch and raw signal amplitude for loudness were matched closest to a straight line, whereas other scalings led to perceptions of exponential or logarithmic curvatures. The investigated tempo gestures, by contrast, did not yield reliable differences. The reliable, robust perception of gesture shape for pitch and loudness has implications on various sound-design applications, especially those cases that rely on crossmodal mappings, e.g., visual analysis or control interfaces like audio waveforms or spectrograms. Given its perceptual relevance, auditory shape appears to be an integral part of sound gestures, while illustrating how crossmodal correspondences can underpin auditory perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with archival materials in the mosque landscape of Turkish origin in Germany. The focus is to work out its becoming, structure, functionality and importance as well as lines of knowledge of empirical reappraisal. First, the history and the context of the emergence are examined in order to capture the microcosm of the archives in a phenomenological insightful way. Subsequently, the discoverable archival collections will be subjected to a categorization of their parts. The summarizing notes emphasize that mosques and their archives are Germany's historical and cultural heritage that need to be researched in its depth and breadth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VoD -video on demand- platforms have promoted a global television market in the current audiovisual industry. Thanks to its transnational character, the operator of Netflix distributes around the world TV series produced inside a local context, and national cultural identities are transmitted in a global context. The present paper aims to determine the Spanish idiosyncrasy through images about the city of Madrid in Netflix original fiction: Valeria (2020-2023). A qualitative methodology has been used to conduct a bibliographic review and examine this TV fiction. To do so, we elaborate an analysis table with technical data, cultural and emotional identification, and audiovisual language in scenes which show places of Madrid. Findings show the inclusion of outdoors and architectures, locals of economic activity, and identity symbols across images which articulate personal and professional stories with a suitable audiovisual filmmaking. Conclusions highlight the cultural proximity for a local audience, and touristic options of Madrid through this TV series and its promotional material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report presents the experience developed by the Educational Technology Center of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (CTE/Uerj) which resulted in the transformation of its Video Library into an Audiovisual Memory Center (NuMA/Uerj). Its creation is the result of a research project funded by a notice from the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro - FAPERJ. The text reports the dialogue between technological modernization and a multidisciplinary concern with the importance of audiovisual sources in the production of meaning and dissemination of academic knowledge. It also brings a conversation about the relationship between memory and history, culminating in the transformations that occurred in the processes of guarding, preserving and using these narratives as sources for institutional history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a case study on the creation and challenges faced during the early operation years of Café & Fita Crepe Junior Films Enterprise, part of the Cinema undergraduate at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Registered as an extension project and configured as a non-profit association, following the guidelines of junior enterprises regulated by Federal Law 13,267, dated April 6, 2016, Café & Fita Crepe represents an experiment aimed at offering content creation with a positive social impact to the Florianópolis community (Santa Catarina State, Brazil), carried out by the students of the program. In light of the literature on university extension projects and junior companies, the article examines the main difficulties in implementing and continuing action of this type of initiative within a public university's audiovisual undergraduate program. The findings of the study confirm many of the insights provided by the literature, highlighting the lack of student engagement in extension projects and the limited professional maturity of junior enterprise participants as some of the main obstacles to the consolidation of this type of initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the McGurk effect, perception of a spoken consonant is altered when an auditory (A) syllable is presented with an incongruent visual (V) syllable (e.g., A/pa/V/ka/ is often heard as /ka/ or /ta/). The McGurk effect provides a measure for visual influence on speech perception, becoming stronger the lower the proportion of auditory correct responses. Cross-language effects are studied to understand processing differences between one's own and foreign languages. Regarding the McGurk effect, it has sometimes been found to be stronger with foreign speakers. However, other studies have shown the opposite, or no difference between languages. Most studies have compared English with other languages. We investigated cross-language effects with native Finnish and Japanese speakers and listeners. Both groups of listeners had 49 participants. The stimuli (/ka/, /pa/, /ta/) were uttered by two female and male Finnish and Japanese speakers and presented in A, V and AV modality, including a McGurk stimulus A/pa/V/ka/. The McGurk effect was stronger with Japanese stimuli in both groups. Differences in speech perception were prominent between individual speakers but less so between native languages. Unisensory perception correlated with McGurk perception. These findings suggest that stimulus-dependent features contribute to the McGurk effect. This may have a stronger influence on syllable perception than cross-language factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotion recognition – a prerequisite for social interactions – varies among individuals. Sex differences have been proposed as a central source of individual differences, although the existing evidence is rather heterogeneous. In the current study (N = 426), we investigated the potential moderating effects of stimulus features, including modality, emotion specificity, and the sex of the encoder (referring to the sex of the actor) on the magnitude of sex differences in emotion recognition. Our findings replicated women's overall better emotion recognition, particularly evident for negative expressions (fear and anger) compared to men. This outperformance was observed across all modalities, with the largest differences for audiovisually expressed emotions, while the sex of the encoder had no impact. Given our findings, future studies should consider these and other potential moderator variables to better estimate sex differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explaining individual differences in vocabulary in autism is critical, as understanding and using words to communicate are key predictors of long-term outcomes for autistic individuals. Differences in audiovisual speech processing may explain variability in vocabulary in autism. The efficiency of audiovisual speech processing can be indexed via amplitude suppression, wherein the amplitude of the event-related potential (ERP) is reduced at the P2 component in response to audiovisual speech compared to auditory-only speech. This study used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure P2 amplitudes in response to auditory-only and audiovisual speech and norm-referenced, standardized assessments to measure vocabulary in 25 autistic and 25 nonautistic children to determine whether amplitude suppression (a) differs or (b) explains variability in vocabulary in autistic and nonautistic children. A series of regression analyses evaluated associations between amplitude suppression and vocabulary scores. Both groups demonstrated P2 amplitude suppression, on average, in response to audiovisual speech relative to auditory-only speech. Between-group differences in mean amplitude suppression were nonsignificant. Individual differences in amplitude suppression were positively associated with expressive vocabulary through receptive vocabulary, as evidenced by a significant indirect effect observed across groups. The results suggest that efficiency of audiovisual speech processing may explain variance in vocabulary in autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Audiovisual speech perception includes the simultaneous processing of auditory and visual speech. Deficits in audiovisual speech perception are reported in autistic individuals; however, less is known regarding audiovisual speech perception within the broader autism phenotype (BAP), which includes individuals with elevated, yet subclinical, levels of autistic traits. We investigate the neural indices of audiovisual speech perception in adults exhibiting a range of autism-like traits using event-related potentials (ERPs) in a phonemic restoration paradigm. In this paradigm, we consider conditions where speech articulators (mouth and jaw) are present (AV condition) and obscured by a pixelated mask (PX condition). These two face conditions were included in both passive (simply viewing a speaking face) and active (participants were required to press a button for a specific consonant–vowel stimulus) experiments. The results revealed an N100 ERP component which was present for all listening contexts and conditions; however, it was attenuated in the active AV condition where participants were able to view the speaker's face, including the mouth and jaw. The P300 ERP component was present within the active experiment only, and significantly greater within the AV condition compared to the PX condition. This suggests increased neural effort for detecting deviant stimuli when visible articulation was present and visual influence on perception. Finally, the P300 response was negatively correlated with autism-like traits, suggesting that higher autistic traits were associated with generally smaller P300 responses in the active AV and PX conditions. The conclusions support the finding that atypical audiovisual processing may be characteristic of the BAP in adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each year, approximately 12 million girls worldwide enter into marriage before reaching the age of 18. In East Kalimantan Province, data from the 2020 National Socio-Economic Survey revealed that 11.54% of women aged 20-24 had experienced early marriage, surpassing Indonesia's average. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of audiovisual and printed health education media in enhancing the knowledge of young women about early marriage. A quasi-experimental approach was adopted, involving 32 young women aged 15-18 from a public high school in Borneo. The study measured the knowledge change in young women and their parents through questionnaires. Data analysis consisted of descriptive and inferential procedures, including normality tests, homogeneity tests, paired t tests, and analysis of variance tests. The findings demonstrated that audiovisual media significantly improved young women's awareness of early marriage (p<0.005). The study encourages midwives and healthcare professionals to employ effective health education media, particularly audiovisual tools, in educational settings to combat early marriage practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the evolution of public policy for cultural and creative industries in the context of building India as a digital nation. How has the rise of digital industries in the building of the country permeated policies related to cultural industries, and what have been the consequences of this trend? It will also explore the tensions regarding the evolution of the role of the State in shaping and regulating such industries in the broader context of culture being increasingly associated with national identity. This article starts by showing that in a context where cultural policies remain centered on heritage, the support to culture by the state has remained limited, both in financial terms as well as regarding the implementation of specific regulations which would require protection from traditional market forces. Then, it analyzes several action plans that have been developed as part of the Digital India government initiative and assesses emerging issues for the cultural and creative industries, which are increasingly associated with the functioning of digital devices and operators. Finally, it discussed recent modalities of state intervention through the transfer of the role of cultural operator to digital platforms and the attempts to control expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In social interactions, emotional biases can arise when the emotional state of oneself and another person are incongruent. A person's ability to judge the other's emotional state can then be biased by their own emotional state, leading to an emotional egocentric bias (EEB). Alternatively, a person's perception of their own emotional state can be biased by the other's emotional state leading to an emotional altercentric bias (EAB). Using a modified audiovisual paradigm, we examined in three studies (n = 171; two online & one lab-based study) whether emotional biases can be considered traits by measuring two timepoints within participant and relating empathy trait scores to emotional biases, as well as the electrophysiological correlates of emotional biases. In all studies, we found a congruency effect, reflecting an EEB and EAB of small size. Both biases failed to correlate significantly within participants across timepoints and did not display significant relationships with empathy trait scores. On the electrophysiological level, we did not find any neural emotional bias effects in the time–frequency domain. Our results suggest that EEB and EAB effects are strongly task sensitive. Caution is warranted when studying interindividual differences in emotional biases using this paradigm, as they did not show significant test-retest reliabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A movie summarization model can automatically edit a condensed version of a movie by selecting keyframes. Some previous works have proposed some movie summarizers based on traditional methods or recent neural networks and achieved some progress. Despite the demonstrated successes, there are some limitations: (1) previous works mainly resort to hand-crafted heuristics and most of them are unsupervised; (2) currently there is no publicly suitable dataset available for the supervised movie summarization; (3) existing works only focus on the movies themselves while neglecting the audiences, who have the most to say in which part of the movie is more attractive. To break through the aforementioned limitations, we establish a movie summarization dataset Movie50 and propose a novel human attention based annotation pipeline. Furthermore, we propose the A/V-MSNet, an audiovisual neural network that takes advantage of spatio-temporal visual and auditory information to better simulate human attention as well as exploit more plentiful information. The network is designed, trained end-to-end, and evaluated on the public dataset and our dataset. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autistic youth demonstrate differences in processing multisensory information, particularly in temporal processing of multisensory speech. Extensive research has identified several key brain regions for multisensory speech processing in non-autistic adults, including the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and insula, but it is unclear to what extent these regions are involved in temporal processing of multisensory speech in autistic youth. As a first step in exploring the neural substrates of multisensory temporal processing in this clinical population, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with a simultaneity-judgment audiovisual speech task. Eighteen autistic youth and a comparison group of 20 non-autistic youth matched on chronological age, biological sex, and gender participated. Results extend prior findings from studies of non-autistic adults, with non-autistic youth demonstrating responses in several similar regions as previously implicated in adult temporal processing of multisensory speech. Autistic youth demonstrated responses in fewer of the multisensory regions identified in adult studies; responses were limited to visual and motor cortices. Group responses in the middle temporal gyrus significantly interacted with age; younger autistic individuals showed reduced MTG responses whereas older individuals showed comparable MTG responses relative to non-autistic controls. Across groups, responses in the precuneus covaried with task accuracy, and anterior temporal and insula responses covaried with nonverbal IQ. These preliminary findings suggest possible differences in neural mechanisms of audiovisual processing in autistic youth while highlighting the need to consider participant characteristics in future, larger-scale studies exploring the neural basis of multisensory function in autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication society is involved in a digital evolution process. The creation of contents for the Internet is part of digital culture and thus advertising has adapted its formats to this new paradigm. This study attempts to show the relevance of Branded Content strategy. Audiovisual content is analysed through a qualitative research methodology. Digital space transformation, connexion and integration of communication channels, and emotional connexion will be discussed. In conclusion, Branded Content is one of the most suitable strategies to convey brand identity to consumers through different formats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hearing a task-irrelevant sound during object encoding can improve visual recognition memory when the sound is object-congruent (e.g., a dog and a bark). However, previous studies have only used binary old/new memory tests, which do not distinguish between recognition based on the recollection of details about the studied event or stimulus familiarity. In the present research, we hypothesized that hearing a task-irrelevant but semantically congruent natural sound at encoding would facilitate the formation of richer memory representations, resulting in increased recollection of details of the encoded event. Experiment 1 replicates previous studies showing that participants were more confident about their memory for items that were initially encoded with a congruent sound compared to an incongruent sound. Experiment 2 suggests that congruent object-sound pairings specifically facilitate recollection and not familiarity-based recognition memory, and Experiment 3 demonstrates that this effect was coupled with more accurate memory for audiovisual congruency of the item and sound from encoding rather than another aspect of the episode. These results suggest that even when congruent sounds are task-irrelevant, they promote formation of multisensory memories and subsequent recollection-based retention. Given the ubiquity of encounters with multisensory objects in our everyday lives, considering their impact on episodic memory is integral to building models of memory that apply to naturalistic settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During face-to-face communication, recipients need to rapidly integrate a plethora of auditory and visual signals. This integration of signals from many different bodily articulators, all offset in time, with the information in the speech stream may either tax the cognitive system, thus slowing down language processing, or may result in multimodal facilitation. Using the classical shadowing paradigm, participants shadowed speech from face-to-face, naturalistic dyadic conversations in an audiovisual context, an audiovisual context without visual speech (e.g., lips), and an audio-only context. Our results provide evidence of a multimodal facilitation effect in human communication: participants were faster in shadowing words when seeing multimodal messages compared with when hearing only audio. Also, the more visual context was present, the fewer shadowing errors were made, and the earlier in time participants shadowed predicted lexical items. We propose that the multimodal facilitation effect may contribute to the ease of fast face-to-face conversational interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the era of the Broadband Society, cloud journalism, and streaming, the film industry is trying to modify traditional distribution channels. The adaptation of literary classics was one of the most widespread practices to obtain well-known, quality material for new productions. The objective of this research is to understand empirically what differences are involved in industry’s major production and distribution companies’ choice between adapting preexisting material or creating an entirely new film, as well as the benefits of adaptations. The methodology is comparative and quantitative, consisting of collecting data on films from the five major distributors (Universal, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony, and Paramount) from 2010 to 2019 and analyzing variables to detect market trends related to adaptations during that decade. We observed a higher percentage of adaptations as well as correlations between adaptations and film genre, distributor and genre, adaptations and awards, awards and genre, and genre and the film’s evaluation, as well as between distributor and average budget, adaptations and budget, adaptation and opening weekend box office takings, genre and profit, adaptations and worldwide box office revenues, ratings and worldwide box office takings, and awards and worldwide box office takings; however, this was not observed between adaptation and profit and the breakeven point. It is concluded that, despite the fact that the trend of using this practice has not increased in recent years, it provides a great advantage compared with debuting new intellectual property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Success on television can be measured according to a series of variables. In this work, a theoretical review was carried out to determine its main factors, complemented with 34 in-depth interviews with the heads of the seven longest-running journalistic humor formats on Spanish television from 1990 to 2015. Owing to their importance in terms of broadcasting and support from society, these enable an evaluation of entertainment as it is linked to information, as both a societal need and technique for escapism, thus depicting the enhanced importance of the television medium in terms of how its content, characters, and structure form part of our collective history. The conclusions have a social character in revealing what the public has consumed, and an economic character, as they decipher what works on television, using a method based on five factors: content, technical execution, awards and reviews, audience, and context. The interviewees provide the keys to the success of the audiovisual cultural industry, characterized herein using 100 categories. For television professionals, success is a utopia that is achieved only by those who combine high-quality content and excellent technical execution, for which they receive awards and strong reviews that reinforce their image with the audience, whose numbers and opinion determine, together with the context, competition, and market conditions, their time on air. Their statements reveal that differentiation, talent, the backing of the network, and creative freedom based on tenacity are fundamental features. Achieving success is a complex task, with a proven formula that does not only represent a limitation but also enables innovative contributions from other genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although cognitive abilities have been shown to facilitate multisensory processing in adults, the development of cognitive abilities such as working memory and intelligence, and their relationship to multisensory motor reaction times (MRTs), has not been well investigated in children. Thus, the aim of the current study was to explore the contribution of age-related cognitive abilities in elementary school-age children (n = 75) aged 5–10 years, to multisensory MRTs in response to auditory, visual, and audiovisual stimuli, and a visuomotor eye–hand co-ordination processing task. Cognitive performance was measured on classical working memory tasks such as forward and backward visual and auditory digit spans, and the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM test of nonverbal intelligence). Bayesian Analysis revealed decisive evidence for age-group differences across grades on visual digit span tasks and RCPM scores but not on auditory digit span tasks. The results also showed decisive evidence for the relationship between performance on more complex visually based tasks, such as difficult items of the RCPM and visual digit span, and multisensory MRT tasks. Bayesian regression analysis demonstrated that visual WM digit span tasks together with nonverbal IQ were the strongest unique predictors of multisensory processing. This suggests that the capacity of visual memory rather than auditory processing abilities becomes the most important cognitive predictor of multisensory MRTs, and potentially contributes to the expected age-related increase in cognitive abilities and multisensory motor processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dissemination of science, due to its complex nature, is a difficult task for most audiovisual genres. This challenge is even bigger when the dissemination channel is a social network, with messages requiring brevity and speed. Instagram has become the main source of audiovisual consumption for the youngest audiences, whereas the construction of its contents differs more and more from scientific language. In light of this, we pose the following questions: How do we transform the scientific discourse to adapt it to Instagram consumption trends? What narrative elements ensure media effectiveness? Where lies the undiscovered balance needed to achieve success in science dissemination? In order to clarify those questions, we analysed the discourse elements of the most popular Spanish science communication audiovisual productions on the Instagram social network. Preliminary results identify that artistic merit in the use of audiovisual narrative mechanisms and a defined role as a scientific profile encourage understanding between science and younger audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Association of Regional Television (Circom) is an umbrella organization of regional broadcasters in Europe, currently composed of a total of 43 broadcasters from 29 countries. These public service media play a decisive role in information reality owing to their proximity, the cultural development of their communities, and the emotional bond they have with their audiences. This research analyzes the relationship between European regional media, innovation, and digitization processes and the fight against disinformation in the current media context through interviews with Circom network managers. In turn, the resulting sample has been compared with the models of Hallin and Mancini (2004), demonstrating that this classification is not significant in terms of innovation and digitization approaches but is decisive in the analysis of disinformation and the strategies used by the media in each country. Innovation, digitization processes, and business structure have conceptualization problems in solving the pressure that today's convergent environment exerts on linear television. After analyzing the results, it becomes clear that there is a pressing need to renew and redefine professional profiles, adapt content to different formats, and conquer young audiences, although there is no agreement on the best way to face these challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how ten television news programs use TikTok to disseminate science news, analyzing how the platform's own language is applied. Through the application of an evaluation checklist, the adaptation of television content is analyzed and the audiovisual opportunities offered by this social network are assessed. The results show that short videos produce greater interaction with users and that news channel profiles are not sufficiently taking advantage of the particular language that this social network allows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to demonstrate the importance of policies promoting audiovisual culture for women's emancipation, the role of cinema in building the feminist movement, and how it can serve as a tool for social inclusion for women. The main objective was to investigate the growth of projects produced by women, particularly at the production company Dona Filmes, in the Federal District - Brasília, Brazil. The methodology involved exploratory research, interviews, and bibliographic research to understand the promotion of audiovisual culture through public policies supporting women's empowerment and how these policies impact the Dona Filmes production company regionally, illustrating its relevance to the feminist cause in cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interview granted by Joseph Straubhaar to Daniel Rios and Melina Meimaridis at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Niterói, Brazil, on November 11, 2022. During the conversation, he discussed his arguments regarding imperialism, dependency, and cultural proximity in the context of video streaming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Performing BSE will help the program for early detection of breast cancer, thereby providing a higher cure rate for cancer sufferers. An effective way to accelerate the achievement of the national target is to increase the number of health cadres and increase the knowledge, awareness, and skills of these cadres. Interesting media will provide confidence, namely through audiovisual media. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of health education through audiovisual and lectures on BSE abilities in Posyandu cadres. This research method is a quasi-experimental, the population in this study is all cadres of Posyandu in Pasir Belengkong Health Center’s work area. The sample taken to become respondents in this study was conducted by cluster random sampling, the number of samples in each group is 18 respondents. The results showed that health education through aaudiovisualmore effective in increasing the ability of BSE in Posyandu cadres based on the results of the Mann Whitney test, the probability value (p value) = 0.000 < 0.05. Health education through audiovisuals and lectures can improve BSE skills in Posyandu cadres. Audiovisual is more effective because it is easy to learn and repeat at home, so it is easy to remember and has an impact on knowledge and attitudes, finally the ability of Posyandu cadres also increases. Health education through audiovisual is an effective way to improve BSE capabilities in Posyandu cadres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the webseries Girls in the House. We investigated what effects of meaning the interaction process produces and what discursive strategies are configured in the generative path of expression, proposed by Fontanille (2008; 2014), through the levels of semiotic pertinence. We start from the identification of genres through semiotic theory and then we approach the generic constitution of the webseries and how it configures practices in the process of creation and delivery of content through digital support. This article, however, does not intend to make a historiographical study of the genre, but to use discussions already proposed to apply in an analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Electromyography (EMG)-based audiovisual biofeedback systems, developed and tested in research settings to train neuromuscular control in patient populations such as cerebral palsy (CP), have inherent implementation obstacles that may limit their translation to clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to design and validate an alternative, plantar pressure-based biofeedback system for improving ankle plantar flexor recruitment during walking in individuals with CP. Methods: Eight individuals with CP (11–18 years old) were recruited to test both an EMG-based and a plantar pressure-based biofeedback system while walking. Ankle plantar flexor muscle recruitment, co-contraction at the ankle, and lower limb kinematics were compared between the two systems and relative to baseline walking. Results: Relative to baseline walking, both biofeedback systems yielded significant increases in mean soleus (43–58%, p < 0.05), and mean (68–70%, p < 0.05) and peak (71–82%, p < 0.05) medial gastrocnemius activation, with no differences between the two systems and strong relationships for all primary outcome variables (R = 0.89–0.94). Ankle co-contraction significantly increased relative to baseline only with the EMG-based system (52%, p = 0.03). Conclusion: These findings support future research on functional training with this simple, low-cost biofeedback modality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COIL project carried out between the Minuto de Dios University Corporation UNIMINUTO Antioquia Chocó Bello campus (Colombia) and the University of Arts and Sciences of Chiapas, UNICACH (Mexico) during the COVID-19 pandemic, is the rapprochement between students of the programs in social communication-journalism and a degree in languages with a tourism focus. Through an inter-institutional relationship in the area of internationalization, interculturality, soft and digital skills are strengthened in an effort to harmonize their curricula. The resulting product is the creation of audiovisuals about linguistics, traditions and customs of their places of origin, within the framework of sociolinguistics and language subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Watching a speaker's face improves speech perception accuracy. This benefit is enabled, in part, by implicit lipreading abilities present in the general population. While it is established that lipreading can alter the perception of a heard word, it is unknown how these visual signals are represented in the auditory system or how they interact with auditory speech representations. One influential, but untested, hypothesis is that visual speech modulates the population-coded representations of phonetic and phonemic features in the auditory system. This model is largely supported by data showing that silent lipreading evokes activity in the auditory cortex, but these activations could alternatively reflect general effects of arousal or attention or the encoding of non-linguistic features such as visual timing information. This gap limits our understanding of how vision supports speech perception. To test the hypothesis that the auditory system encodes visual speech information, we acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from healthy adults and intracranial recordings from electrodes implanted in patients with epilepsy during auditory and visual speech perception tasks. Across both datasets, linear classifiers successfully decoded the identity of silently lipread words using the spatial pattern of auditory cortex responses. Examining the time course of classification using intracranial recordings, lipread words were classified at earlier time points relative to heard words, suggesting a predictive mechanism for facilitating speech. These results support a model in which the auditory system combines the joint neural distributions evoked by heard and lipread words to generate a more precise estimate of what was said. [Display omitted] • Silently lipread words can be classified from the auditory cortex • Auditory classification benefits from congruent visual speech • Lipread words were classified at earlier time points relative to heard words • Auditory cortex represents lipreading information similar to heard words Using fMRI and intracranial recordings, Karthik et al. show that silent lipreading can be classified from the auditory cortex. This effect is driven by spatially distributed representations in the auditory system. The time course of lipread information parallels that of heard speech, enabling the auditory system to generate more precise estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The sound of an accelerating ICEV helps pedestrians judge its TTC fairly accurately. • Comparatively, more erroneous (overestimated) TTC estimates for accelerating EVs. • An acoustic vehicle altering system (AVAS) only partly compensates for these errors. • In real traffic, TTC overestimations might lead to risky road-crossing decisions. To avoid collisions, pedestrians intending to cross a road need to accurately estimate the time-to-collision (TTC) of an approaching vehicle. For TTC estimation, auditory information can be considered particularly relevant when the approaching vehicle accelerates. The sound of vehicles with internal combustion engine (ICEVs) provides characteristic auditory information about the acceleration state (increasing rotational speed and engine load). However, for electric vehicles (EVs), the acoustic signature during acceleration is less salient. Although the auditory detection of EVs has been studied extensively, there is no research on potential effects of the altered acoustic signature of EVs on TTC estimation. To close this gap, we compared TTC estimates for ICEVs and for EVs with and without activated acoustic vehicle alerting system (AVAS). We implemented a novel interactive audiovisual virtual-reality system for studying the human perception of approaching vehicles. Using acoustic recordings of real vehicles as source signals, the dynamic spatial sound field corresponding to a vehicle approaching in an urban setting is generated based on physical modeling of the sound propagation between vehicle and pedestrian (listener) and is presented via sound field synthesis (higher-order Ambisonics). In addition to the auditory simulations, the scene was visually presented on a head-mounted display with head tracking. Participants estimated the TTC of vehicles that either approached at a constant speed or accelerated positively. In conditions with constant speed, TTC estimates for EVs with and without AVAS were similar to those for ICEVs. In contrast, for accelerating vehicles, there was a substantial effect of the vehicle type on the TTC estimates. For the EVs, the mean TTC estimates showed a significant overestimation. Thus, subjects on average perceived the time of arrival of the EV at their position as longer than it actually was. The extent of overestimation increased with acceleration and presented TTC. This pattern is similar to a first-order TTC estimation representing a failure to consider the acceleration, which is consistently reported in the literature for visual-only presentations of accelerating objects. In comparison, the overestimation of TTC was largely reduced for the accelerating ICEVs. The AVAS somewhat improved the TTC estimates for the accelerating EVs, but without reaching the same level of accuracy as for the ICEVs. In real traffic scenarios, overestimations of the TTC of approaching vehicles might lead to risky road-crossing decisions. Therefore, our finding that pedestrians are significantly less able to use the acoustic information emitted by accelerating EVs for their TTC judgments, compared to accelerating ICEVs, has important implications for road safety and for the design of AVAS technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research has shown that visual moving and multisensory stimuli can efficiently mediate rhythmic information. It is possible, therefore, that the previously reported auditory dominance in rhythm perception is due to the use of nonoptimal visual stimuli. Yet it remains unknown whether exposure to multisensory or visual-moving rhythms would benefit the processing of rhythms consisting of nonoptimal static visual stimuli. Using a perceptual learning paradigm, we tested whether the visual component of the multisensory training pair can affect processing of metric simple two integer-ratio nonoptimal visual rhythms. Participants were trained with static (AVstat), moving-inanimate (AVinan), or moving-animate (AVan) visual stimuli along with auditory tones and a regular beat. In the pre- and posttraining tasks, participants responded whether two static-visual rhythms differed or not. Results showed improved posttraining performance for all training groups irrespective of the type of visual stimulation. To assess whether this benefit was auditory driven, we introduced visual-only training with a moving or static stimulus and a regular beat (Vinan). Comparisons between Vinan and Vstat showed that, even in the absence of auditory information, training with visual-only moving or static stimuli resulted in an enhanced posttraining performance. Overall, our findings suggest that audiovisual and visual static or moving training can benefit processing of nonoptimal visual rhythms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Film Commission / Film Office is an actor in the value chain of the audiovisual industry which, from the academic perspective of Audiovisual Communication, has received very little attention but which, nevertheless, stands as one of the particularly relevant production support mechanisms. For this reason, the aim of the research consists of finding out the level of the development of this agent that stimulates the audiovisual industry and the territory, through a synchronous study carried out in 2022. The data provides a snapshot of the filming attraction offices in Spain, a sector that is undoubtedly a valuable asset for the implementation of the «Spain, Audiovisual Hub of Europe» Plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article formulates a proposal for a theoretical model that can be applied to the Public Service Media (SPM) of Catalonia, in order to update it according to the challenges it will have to face in the coming years. This proposal is the result of an analysis of the transformations in the audiovisual sector, the deployment of telecommunications, the impact of the new European directives and the organizational charts of European public broadcasters similar to the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA), in order to identify the most efficient solutions when organizing the PSM. It also discusses the rejuvenation of the workforce and the funding needed to carry out the public service mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Hemodialysis is an effective treatment carried out for patientswith chronic kidney failure to improve the quality of life. 80% of hemodialysis patients experience physical stress disorder and psychosocial stress related to treatment. When faced with stress, the body muscles become tense as the abdomen becomes tense and cramped, the chest feels tight, which impacts physical and psychosocial health, so it is necessary to have stress management training through relaxation techniques. This study aimed to determine the effect of progressive relaxation on stress levels in patients with hemodialysis. Method: A quasi-experimental pre-test and posttest study with control group design was used in this study. is a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test study with a control group design. There were 58 respondents divided into two groups (intervention and control), and each group consisted of 29 people selected by random sampling. Measurement of stress levels using questionnaire Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 42 (DASS 42). Results: The Mann Whitney U Test showed a difference in the decrease instress levels which was statistically significant (p <0.05). Conclusion: The audio-visual progressive relaxation training conducted at least two times a week for three weeks effectively reduces stress levels in patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy for at least one month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multimodality offers anthropologists an inflection on the way we do research, produce scholarship, teach students, and relate to diverse publics. Advancing an expanding array of tools, practices, and concepts, multimodality signals a change in the way we pay attention and attend to the diverse possibilities for understanding the human experience. Multimodality recognizes the way smartphones, social media, and digital software transform research dynamics in unprecedented ways, while also drawing upon long-standing practices of recording and presenting research through images, sounds, objects, and text. Rather than flatten out ethnographic participant observation into logocentric practices of people-writing, multimodal ethnographies diversify their modes of inquiry to produce more-than-textual mediations of sensorial research experiences. By emphasizing kaleidoscopic qualities that give shape to an emergent, multidimensional, and diversifying anthropology, multimodality proposes alternatives to enduring and delimiting dichotomies, particularly text/image. These new configurations invite unrealized disciplinary constellations and research collaborations to emerge, but also require overhauling the infrastructures that support training, dissemination, and assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The myth of the island as paradise is one of the most researched topics in the field of island studies, a myth widely exploited by the tourism sector. This article studies two artistic productions about the Balearic Islands, the chronicle Balearia and the videogame Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, with the purpose of observing the social and ecological impact of the massive arrival of tourists to the Balearic archipelago, such as the increase in prices or the destruction of the ecosystem through uncontrolled urbanization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]