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Acta Paediatr 2021 Apr 19. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Aim: Our aim was to analyse 12-month outcomes of children who were prenatally exposed to the Zika virus and asymptomatic at birth.

Methods: This was an observational, exploratory study of infants exposed to the Zika virus during gestation and born between March 2016 and April 2017 without congenital Zika syndrome. They were followed until the age of 22 months. Read More

Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2021 Apr 26;64:102236. Epub 2021 Mar 26.

Department of General and Special Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.

Introduction: Congenital hearing impairment is one of the principal issues that make distress to families especially those with a family history of hearing problems. Early detection of hearing impairment can make a difference regarding cognitive, attention, learning, speech, and social and emotional development of babies. Otoacoustic test emission is a very common screening test that can be used to pick up early cases and relieve family stress. Read More

CEUR Workshop Proc 2019 Aug;2429:15-22

Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin.

The emergence of deep learning networks raises a need for explainable AI so that users and domain experts can be confident applying them to high-risk decisions. In this paper, we leverage data from the latent space induced by deep learning models to learn stereotypical representations or "prototypes" during training to elucidate the algorithmic decision-making process. We study how leveraging prototypes effect classification decisions of two dimensional time-series data in a few different settings: (1) electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms to detect clinical bradycardia, a slowing of heart rate, in preterm infants, (2) respiration waveforms to detect apnea of prematurity, and (3) audio waveforms to classify spoken digits. Read More

Hum Dev 2020 Jan 12;63(Suppl 3-4):180-201. Epub 2019 Nov 12.

New York University.

The ecological approach is a framework for studying the behavior of animals in their environments. My version of an ecological approach focuses on learning in the context of development. I argue that the most important thing animals learn is behavioral flexibility. Read More

Cognition 2021 Apr 13:104686. Epub 2021 Apr 13.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

One of the prominent ideas developed by Jacques Mehler and his colleagues was that perceptual tuning, present from birth on, enables infants, and language learners in general, to extract regularities from speech input. Here we discuss language learners'' ability to extract basic word order (VO or OV) structure from prosodic regularities in a language. The two are closely related: in phonological phrases of VO languages, the most prominent word is the rightmost one, and in OV languages, it is the leftmost one. Read More