Boucart and Humphreys reported an automatic access to object identity when observers attend to a physical property of the form of an object (e.g. the orientation) but not to its colour. We sought evidence for automatic identification in a brain imaging study using fMRI. In an orientation decision task participants decided whether a picture was vertical or horizontal. In the colour decision task...

OWL 2-supported Semantic Tagging is a non compulsory yet decisive and highly influential component of a multidisciplinary knowledge architecture framework which synergetically combines the Semantic and the Social Webs. The facility consists of a semantic tagging layer based on OWL 2 axioms and expressions enticing social network users, typically mommy bloggers, to annotate their chaos of textua...

2 Numerous ERP-studies reveal the differential processing of emotional and neutral stimuli. Yet, it is an ongoing debate to what extent the ERP-components found in previous research are sensitive to physical stimulus characteristics or emotional meaning. The present study manipulated emotional meaning and stimulus orientation to disentangle the impact of stimulus physics and semantics on emotio...

Time is a fundamental aspect of human experience. Whilst most research investigated major aspects of psychological time time duration, time succession, individual temporal orientation in isolation, this dissertation investigates interrelations between individual temporal orientation and time succession. Since psychological time is bound to cognitive abstraction processes that rely on cognitive ...

In this paper, opinion polarity classification on news texts has been carried out for a less privileged language Bengali using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The present system identifies semantic orientation of an opinionated phrase as either positive or negative. The classification of text as either subjective or objective is clearly a precursor to determining the opinion orientation of evalua...

information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. however, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. in this ...

Temporal knowledge representation and reasoning is a major research field in Artificial Intelligence, in Database Systems, and in Web and Semantic Web research. The ability to model and process time and calendar data is essential for many applications like appointment scheduling, planning, Web services, temporal and active database systems, adaptive Web applications, and mobile computing applic...

The recognition of hands and the 3-dimensional characterization of hand orientation is a diicult and practically important vision problem. In this work we propose a hybrid system attaching artiicial neural networks to concepts of a semantic network to solve this problem. The neural networks are attached as a holistic representation at varying levels of the abstraction hierarchy modeled by the s...