{"title":"Critical Review on the Development and Evolution of Beat Perception","authors":"Gábor Háden, Henkjan Honing","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70386","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beat perception—the ability to extract a regular pulse from rhythmic sequences—is a foundational component of human musicality and a key mechanism supporting synchronization, dance, and collective music-making. Research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and comparative cognition demonstrates that beat processing exhibits four defining characteristics: it is near-universal across human cultures, emerges spontaneously in early development, engages domain-specific predictive timing mechanisms, and appears rare across species. Neurophysiological evidence indicates that newborns respond to rhythmic regularities using predictive neural processes that cannot be explained by simple interval timing or statistical learning alone. Across infancy and childhood, these early predispositions are progressively refined through auditory experience, motor development, and musical enculturation. Comparative studies show—although the evidence is still sparse—that several species (including humans) share this ability, but also that nonhuman primates, while able to match the tempo of an auditory sequence, typically do not show robust beat synchronization. Together, findings from phylogeny and ontogeny suggest that beat perception reflects an early-emerging, biologically prepared capacity that is further shaped by experience. Understanding its developmental and evolutionary bases offers crucial insight into the origins of human musicality and the neural architecture supporting temporal prediction.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70386","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148915512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruibo Cong, Bozhao Li, Zhengjia Niu, Zhongliang Cai, Wentao Cao
{"title":"HMM-PMM: A Parallel Hidden Markov Model-Based Map-Matching Framework for Large-Scale Trajectory Data","authors":"Ruibo Cong, Bozhao Li, Zhengjia Niu, Zhongliang Cai, Wentao Cao","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70387","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Map-matching algorithms are commonly used for trajectory position correction in offline trajectory data mining and online navigation. Hidden Markov model (HMM)–based map-matching algorithms (HMM-MMs) are the most widely used approaches. However, HMM-MMs face efficiency limitations due to frequent shortest-path calculations between candidate point pairs of adjacent trajectory points. To address this, we propose HMM-PMM, a distributed map-matching framework based on MapReduce and HMM. First, candidate point pairs are grouped by their origin–destination nodes. Next, the appropriate shortest-path algorithm, either Floyd's algorithm or A*, is selected based on the spatial range of nodes and a customized confidence ellipse. Finally, shortcuts are constructed based on fusion centrality measures from complex network theory and utilized to improve A* efficiency for long-distance queries. Experimental results show that HMM-PMM achieves up to a 2.90× speedup compared to a baseline that parallelizes the sequential HMM workflow, while preserving output consistency with the baseline matcher. This research demonstrates that, under the proposed grouped workflow, Floyd's algorithm can be effective for a class of shortest-path subproblems in offline trajectory map matching. The main contribution of the framework lies in trajectory-point-pair-level task decomposition and in the corresponding reorganization of shortest-path computation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ke Liang, Yu Cai, Weizhe Feng, Kui Wang, Yue Su, Mingzhang Pan, Tiecheng Su
{"title":"A Residual Spatial Attention Graph Network for Sensorless Force Estimation in Teleoperated Robots","authors":"Ke Liang, Yu Cai, Weizhe Feng, Kui Wang, Yue Su, Mingzhang Pan, Tiecheng Su","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70388","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70388","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Precise force feedback is essential for teleoperated robots to perceive unknown environments and realize high-precision, safe motion control. However, harsh conditions and space limitations in demanding environments impede force sensor deployment, making sensorless force estimation imperative. This study proposes a residual spatial attention graph-temporal convolutional network (RSAG-TCN) that fuses spatial and temporal features for accurate sensorless force estimation in teleoperated robots. Comparative and ablation experiments were conducted in contact environments with varying stiffness. The comparative models include gated recurrent unit (GRU), long short-term memory (LSTM), PSTA-TCN, Densenet-Transformer, ASGRNN, and our prior MDELM. Experimental results showed that RSAG-TCN significantly outperformed all comparative models. Specifically, compared to the best-performing baseline (MDELM), RSAG-TCN reduced the root mean square error by 0.0236 N in soft contact environments and by 0.1040 N in hard contact environments. Ablation experiments further verified the necessity of the GCN and CAM-SAM modules for spatial feature extraction and key feature enhancement. Beyond offline accuracy evaluation, a human-in-the-loop experiment with six volunteers was conducted to demonstrate the proposed method's effectiveness in enhancing teleoperation transparency and stability in real-time operation. This work provides an efficient sensorless force estimation solution for teleoperation systems, offering technical support for high-precision robotic force control in extreme scenarios.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148890845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Quettier, Fausto Caruana, Cristina Scarpazza, Sara Borgomaneri
{"title":"Exploring the Sensorimotor System's Role in Emotional Authenticity Discrimination: A ccPAS Study","authors":"Thomas Quettier, Fausto Caruana, Cristina Scarpazza, Sara Borgomaneri","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70390","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70390","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Emotional authenticity discrimination (EAD) is key for social interactions. The social cognition hypothesis suggests that emotion recognition relies on a dynamic visuo-motor interaction. However, the direction and role of this interaction in EAD are still unclear. Here, we investigate the impact of cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS) on the functional connectivity within the visuomotor networks involved in EAD of facial expressions. Sixty-four participants were randomly assigned to different ccPAS conditions targeting the backward and forward connectivity between the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS; IFG–pSTS, pSTS–IFG), and between the IFG and the right primary motor cortex (M1; IFG–M1, M1–IFG). The results revealed improvements in EAD selectively following the pSTS–IFG and the IFG–M1 modulation, across all emotional expressions. Interestingly, a selective increase for genuine emotions was found after IFG–M1 stimulation, suggesting a specific improvement to ecologically valid and socially relevant stimuli. These findings suggest that selectively enhancing the visual-to-motor and premotor-to-motor pathways facilitates EAD. In contrast, motor-to-visual feedback appears to play a negligible role. This study contributes to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying EAD and highlights the potential role of the ccPAS protocol in improving social cognitive abilities, with implications for developing clinical interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Landscape Preferences and Leisure Constraints in Age-Friendly Community Parks”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70403","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Y. Li, C. Du, and B. Li, “Landscape Preferences and Leisure Constraints in Age-Friendly Community Parks,” <i>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences</i> 1562, no. 1 (2026): e70357. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70357</p><p>In the originally published article, the incorrect grant number was given as 55238003. The correct grant information should read “This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 52238003).” The online version of the article has been updated.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yessenia Chavez, Nathan Campbell, Yujun Liu, Hongdao Meng, Jamie Mayer, Christopher Wright, Alex Amidei, Insha Butail, Chloe Steffel, Chirantana Dayanandaswamy, Angela J. Grippo
{"title":"Effects of Classical Music on Behavioral and Physiological Stress Markers in Socially Isolated Prairie Voles","authors":"Yessenia Chavez, Nathan Campbell, Yujun Liu, Hongdao Meng, Jamie Mayer, Christopher Wright, Alex Amidei, Insha Butail, Chloe Steffel, Chirantana Dayanandaswamy, Angela J. Grippo","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70394","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chronic social stressors negatively affect behavioral, physiological, and neuroendocrine functioning. Interventions such as listening to music may alter behavioral and physiological responses to social stressors. This study investigated the effects of music exposure (vs. ambient noise) during chronic social isolation on physiological and behavioral outcomes in socially monogamous prairie voles. Potential sex differences in responses to chronic social isolation with and without music exposure were also examined. Music exposure significantly reduced validated anxiety- and depression-related behavioral responses (increased exploration and grooming, and reduced immobility) and improved physiological measures (heart rate and heart rate variability) in chronically socially isolated prairie voles. Music exposure attenuated an endocrine indicator of stress relative to ambient noise conditions. Minor sex differences were observed; however, music protected against behavioral and physiological indicators of social isolation in both female and male prairie voles. This study demonstrates protective behavioral and physiological effects of music in a social context, and has translational potential for humans who experience chronic social isolation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dong Yang, Lin Chen, Huiren Xu, Yuanbo Yu, Qianfeng Xia, Paul K. Chu, Tingwei Hu
{"title":"Dual-Component Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection of Tetracycline Based on Aptamer-Regulated Catalytic Switch","authors":"Dong Yang, Lin Chen, Huiren Xu, Yuanbo Yu, Qianfeng Xia, Paul K. Chu, Tingwei Hu","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70379","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70379","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper presents a surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensing platform for sensitive detection of tetracycline (TTC) in food samples, in which dual-component signal enhancement is achieved by combining an aptamer-regulated catalytic switch with a structurally optimized substrate. The substrate consists of an ordered gold nanoparticle (AuNP) array conformally coated with a continuous MXene film via liquid–liquid interfacial assembly. A TTC-specific aptamer and catalytic nitrogen/silver co-doped carbon dots (CD<sub>N/Ag</sub>) are further integrated through controlled in-situ formation of AuNPs, enabling synergistic electromagnetic and chemical signal enhancement. The platform exhibits a wide linear range from 10<sup>−5</sup> M to 10<sup>−12</sup> M for TTC, with a limit of detection of 5.3 × 10<sup>−12</sup> M, high selectivity, and robust performance in complex samples. Spike-recovery tests in milk yielded recoveries of 95.6%–126%, with relative standard deviations of 1.6%–5.1%, demonstrating the reliability and practical applicability of the sensor for food safety monitoring.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Learning-Based Intelligent Resource Management for Renewable Energy Engineering Projects","authors":"Yangping Yao","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70353","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study integrates deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with lean management for renewable energy project scheduling. The problem is formulated as a constrained Markov decision process with weather‑dependent dynamics and a composite reward such as schedule, cost, quality, and constraints. A four‑layer architecture (convolutional, recurrent, and attention layers) and a masked proximal policy optimization actor–critic enhanced with prioritized experience replay and meta-learning learn adaptive policies; four lean principles map directly onto the DRL loop. A three-stage feasibility filter—hard action masking, soft resource rescaling, and penalty fallback—ensures that every executed decision satisfies project-network, resource, weather-window, grid, and environmental constraints. Validation on 186 Northwest China projects shows 33.0% shorter duration, 29.2% lower cost, and 87.2% resource utilization while preserving quality. Compared with eight state-of-the-art deep-learning and classical baselines, the proposed approach delivers an average improvement of approximately 2.9 percentage points in schedule efficiency over the strongest deep‑learning baselines, and reduces mean absolute error by approximately 41%–50% on large‑scale projects (>200 activities). The proposed method retains ∼80% performance under 30% noise and ≥97.8% on CPU‑only hardware, supporting practical adoption by small-to-medium enterprises and on-site project offices.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148860007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework","authors":"Lara S. Burchardt, Ludger Paschen, Susanne Fuchs","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70383","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the level of smaller linguistic units, such as words and syllables, rhythm is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity between languages. This suggests that it is distinct from nonhuman animal communication, where underlying isochrony is often observed. In this study, we examine speech rhythm using units similar to those previously examined for nonhuman animals: interonset intervals (IOIs), that is, sound elements surrounded by silence. Surprisingly, IOI durations are relatively similar across a comprehensive sample of 48 languages from all inhabited continents, with a median of approximately 2 s. IOI beats are also relatively similar at around 0.5 Hz, and human speech fits between exemplary animal species in terms of rhythmic variability and beat precision, that is, the extent to which an isochronous beat model fits the sequence. By revealing cross-linguistic regularities and comparing them to those of other animal species, our results help to position human speech within the broader spectrum of rhythmic vocal behavior observed in nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1563 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148858753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shi Liang, Yuxin Long, Jun Xiao, Xinhai Lu, Danling Chen
{"title":"Urban Climate Risk Governance and Corporate Energy Intensity: Evidence From China's Climate Adaptation City Pilots","authors":"Shi Liang, Yuxin Long, Jun Xiao, Xinhai Lu, Danling Chen","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70393","url":null,"abstract":"Climate shocks can raise firms’ energy use by disrupting production, triggering repeated equipment shutdowns and restarts, and requiring temporary operational adjustments. This study examines whether urban adaptation governance reduces these frictions. Using nonfinancial A‐share firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2012 to 2025, we construct a firm–year panel of disclosed physical energy inputs and exploit the staggered rollout of China's Climate Adaptation City Pilots. Firm and year fixed‐effects estimates show a significant decline in energy input intensity after cities enter the effective pilot period, with no systematic pretreatment differences. The result is robust to matched difference‐in‐differences, double machine learning, placebo timing, alternative measures, sample adjustments, and alternative policy‐timing specifications. Energy‐input and revenue‐side analyses indicate that the decline is primarily reflected in lower aggregate energy inputs rather than revenue expansion. The mechanism analysis provides evidence consistent with a pollution‐control practices channel. The effect is stronger for firms with greater energy dependence, firms in cities with higher baseline pollution pressure, and firms with lower pre‐existing environmental‐governance investment, but weakens as managerial environmental‐governance cognition and the breadth of city energy‐transition governance agendas increase. Urban risk governance can therefore influence firms’ real resource allocation by improving the operating conditions of production.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"244 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}