Verbal control of nonverbal behavior

Students as Judges of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning

We are designing a Conversational Agent that communicates at the same time by speech and expressive face. As we are engaged in face-to-face interaction or in any communicative acts where the visual modality is available along with the acoustic one, multimodal signals are at work. Our communicative acts are performed not only through words, but also through intonation, body posture, hand gesture...

The multiple control of verbal behavior.

Amid the novel terms and original analyses in Skinner's Verbal Behavior, the importance of his discussion of multiple control is easily missed, but multiple control of verbal responses is the rule rather than the exception. In this paper we summarize and illustrate Skinner's analysis of multiple control and introduce the terms convergent multiple control and divergent multiple control. We point...

Dissociating verbal and nonverbal audiovisual object processing

This fMRI study investigates how audiovisual integration differs for verbal stimuli that can be matched at a phonological level and nonverbal stimuli that can be matched at a semantic level. Subjects were presented simultaneously with one visual and one auditory stimulus and were instructed to decide whether these stimuli referred to the same object or not. Verbal stimuli were simultaneously pr...

On Nonverbal Behavior

A recent report from the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare estimates that about 4,752,000 (somewhat over ten percent) of the 44,389,000 young people in public elementary and secondary schools are handicapped.1 These figures include young people who are speech impaired, learning disabled, mentally retarded. emotionally disturbed, hard of hearing. deaf, crippled, partially sighte...