A miniature linguistic system was used to study acquisition of recombinative symbolic behavior. Three studies evaluated the teaching conditions of conditional discriminations with printed and spoken pseudowords that could potentially generate recombinative reading. Fifty-four college students across all studies learned to match 12 printed pseudowords to 12 spoken pseudowords. Some also matched ...

Based on the observation results, children with cerebral palsy were subjects of study. They communicate using gestures such as pointing accompanied by meaningless vocalizations. Only some people can immediately understand what child intends. When they need something, will cry and scream. these obstacles, media an alternative augmentative communication system that support them in communicating t...

With the widespread use of online shopping in recent years, consumer search requests for products have become more diverse. Previous web search methods have used adjectives as input by consumers. However, given that the number of adjectives that can be used to express textures is limited, it is debatable whether adjectives are capable of richly expressing variations of product textures. In Japa...

Pictures are referential in that they can represent objects in the real world. Here we explore the emergence of understanding of the referential potential of pictures during the second year of life. In Study 1, 15-, 18-, and 24-month-olds learned a word for a picture of a novel object (e.g., "blicket") in the context of a picture book interaction. Later they were presented with the picture of a...

Knots are obtained by embedding a circle in R. Pictures and handicrafts of knots have appeared in ancient Chinese art several hundred years B.C. The first systematic study of knots though started in the 19th century by a Scottish physicist Peter Guthrie Tait who classified all knots to 10 crossings and made several important conjectures about knots (the most recent of these conjectures is prove...

Music is an intriguing stimulus widely used in movies to increase the emotional experience. However, no brain imaging study has to date examined this enhancement effect using emotional pictures (the modality mostly used in emotion research) and musical excerpts. Therefore, we designed this functional magnetic resonance imaging study to explore how musical stimuli enhance the feeling of affectiv...

This study explores whether people orient to and encode pictures differently depending on whether the pictures were chosen from a limited or an extensive array of options. Participants viewed pictures on a computer as part of a within-subjects experiment (N = 43). In one condition, participants viewed pictures that they had chosen from a limited array of 6 options. In the other condition, parti...