Until now, says Andy Brief, director for account services at DeVito/Verdi, K&G had been "suffering from a share-of-voice deficit" in the crowded retail category.
The voice of deficit and shame crept in, undermining every ego inflating belief I had about myself.
Processing of voices was assessed in relation to processing of faces and names, in order to assess the modality- and material-specificity of any voice processing deficit.
Here we have described behavioural and neuroanatomical signatures of voice processing deficits in FTLD and Alzheimer's disease.
We further hypothesized, based on anatomical evidence in the healthy brain, that semantic deficits in processing voices (in common with other kinds of person knowledge) would be associated with atrophy of anterior temporal lobe regions, and voice apperceptive deficits would be associated with atrophy of more posterior temporo-parietal regions.
In particular, patients with FTLD who have predominant temporal lobe atrophy (i.e. those predicted a priori to develop voice processing deficits) have heterogeneous clinical presentations, including both semantic dementia (progressive semantic aphasia or progressive prosopagnosia) and progressive behavioural decline [(behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (FTD)].
Despite substantial individual variation in performance, both disease groups showed a clear overall trend to conjoined deficits of voice recognition with deficits of other modalities of person knowledge (in particular, recognition of faces).
People who are tone deaf also fail to hear pitch changes in the human voice, so this deficit does not seem specific to music.
In this paper, we review the scientific evidence for targeted training for voice and swallowing deficits.
Both patients showed deficits of voice and environmental sound identification, however PA showed an additional deficit of face identification whereas AA was able to identify (though not name) faces normally.
The concerns they voice about the budget deficit, government intervention and inflation are valid, if wrong-headed (not least because capitalism cannot exist without them).
