Speech pause distribution as an early marker for Alzheimer’s disease

Pause duration analysis is a common feature in the study of discourse in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) since this patient group has shown a consistent trend for longer pauses in comparison to healthy controls. This speech feature may also be helpful for early detection; however, studies involving patients at the pre-clinical, high-risk phase of amnestic mild cognitive …

Bunge & Altmann, in memoriam

If several months ago we had the pleasure of celebrating the centenary of the physicist and philosopher Mario Bunge at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), with the special publication of “Filosofia de la Tecnologia“(2019), for the first time in Catalan, on February 24, we had the regret of knowing his death in Montreal (Canada). Following …