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Description:: In this essay I examine George Aperghis’ process-based compositional thought in the score and performance practice of Retrouvailles, with a focus on the non-hierarchical and simultaneous use of interdisciplinary elements. I demonstrate how Aperghis sets up the complex dramaturgy of superimposed, suggestive narratives in this work as a case-study of...
Keyword:: composed gesture, music theatre, abstract narrativity, language, voice, and percussion
Subject:: Music theory, Linguistics, and Music
Creator:: Charlafti, Niki
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_987572 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16620

Description:: Many theories of categorization have included an intuitive role for our ability to detect and judge similarity. Yet, this important role of similarity processing has been disputed. This research adopts a model of similarity processing through structure mapping (Gentner, 1983) to explore its role in similarity processing and categorization. Relational...
Keyword:: fallacy, learning, language, analogy, category, and logic
Subject:: Cognitive psychology
Creator:: Maravilla, Francisco Epimeño
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_765333 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15302

Description:: Language is a hallmark of human cognition—a rich and flexible method of representing the world around us. As such, language provides an invaluable resource to human infants: a way of gaining insight into the representations that guide adult cognition. In this dissertation, I explore how language influences infants’ cognition as...
Keyword:: categorization, development, language, infant, learning, and cognition
Subject:: Cognitive psychology
Creator:: LaTourrette, Alexander Scott
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_732252 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15046

Description:: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous and pervasive developmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 150 children. A primary indicator of ASD is behavioral language impairment with respect to social communication, but the neurophysiology behind this impairment is not well understood. Both the perception and production of prosody...
Keyword:: speech, neurophysiology, language, autism, and evoked potentials
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Nicole Monique Russo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a debilitating neurodegenerative syndrome that principally impairs the cognitive domain of language. Patients demonstrate deficits in a variety of language faculties including object naming (anomia), word finding, single word and sentence reading, speech comprehension, repetition, syntactic processing, and paraphasia. PPA has been associated with selective...
Keyword:: dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, fMRI, aphasia, language, and language network
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Sreepadma Priya Sonty
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/30/2018
Date Modified:: 07/30/2018
Date Created:: 05-14-2007
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create. As auditory experts, musicians are especially adept at making sense of sound, and accumulating research reveals that this extends to their processing of speech and other communication signals. Much...
Keyword:: speech, music, perception, language, and rhythm
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Jessica Louise Slater
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/13/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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