Pies: Thirty percent of all Dalmatians are deaf in one or both ears

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101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss.. In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset incorporates auditory and visual descriptors from established computational models (e.g., VG…

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The most commonly used language in the United States is English (specifically the American English set of varieties), which is the national language and official language. While the U.S. Congress has never declared a statutory official language, the federal government primarily uses English and a 2025 executive order declared English official. In addition, 32 U.S. states out of 50 and all five U.S. territories have laws that recognize English as an official language. Of these, three states and most territories have adopted English plus one or more other official languages. Overall, 430 languages are spoken or signed by the population, of which 177 are indigenous to the U.S. or its territori…

Evidence: 32 • authority: 92

A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas.. The processing of multisensory information is based upon the capacity of brain regions, such as the superior temporal cortex, to combine information across modalities. However, it is still unclear whether the representation of coherent auditory and visual events requires any prior audiovisual experience to develop and function. Here we measured brain synchronization during the presentation of an audiovisual, audio-only or video-only version of the same narrative in distinct groups of sensory-deprived (congenitally blind and deaf) and typically developed individuals. Intersubject correlation analysis revealed that the su…

Evidence: 32 • authority: 80

101 Dalmatians—But how many are congenitally deaf?

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Table 2: The comparison of the approximate gap-detection threshold (A.th) values and the overall percent correct (OPC) values between the right ear and left ear and both ears.

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All talk, no action: why company strategy often falls on deaf ears

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