Contemporary semantic theories can be classified along two dimensions: (i) the way and time-course in which contextual factors influence sentence truth-conditions; and (ii) whether and to what extent comprehension involves sensory, motor and emotional processes. In order to explore this theoretical space, our ERP study investigates the time-course of the interaction between the lexically specif...

This study investigates the impact of hyperlink affordance, psychological reactance, perceived loss of freedom, perceived business tie between sites, and trust in source site, on trust in target site. Hyperlink affordance represents the extent that the Web encourages users’ behavior. Perceived loss of freedom is based on psychological reactance, which refers to the extent that users react to hy...

Research has shown that the meaningfulness of the material increases judged size, whereas symmetry decreases size judgments. These findings have been interpreted in terms of information processing, with a greater quantity of information leading to a judgment of larger size. An alternative view based on biofunctional understanding theory emphasizes the quality of affordance-triggered biological ...

Citation: Makris S (2015) Commentary: Viewing photos and reading nouns of natural graspable objects similarly modulate motor responses. Marino et al. (2014) in their paper (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience) have tried to investigate how the semantic processing of graspable objects involves an activation of the motor cortex in line with the affordance hypothesis originally proposed by Gibson (197...

This paper reports an empirical study comparing the roles of representations in supporting face to face versus distance collaborative learning. Findings indicate that while face to face collaborators primarily use knowledge representations to summarize verbal reasoning, distributed collaborators also use knowledge representations to propose ideas before they are discussed, particularly ideas su...

Online review has become an important repository for consumers to make online buying decisions. However, writing online reviews is a voluntary behavior lacking guidelines and it is hard to guarantee the review quality generated. How to improve online review quality has become a challenge to online retailers and review aggregators. In this study, we explore the design of review writing interface...

General value functions (GVFs) in the reinforcement learning (RL) literature are long-term predictive summaries of outcomes agents following specific policies environment. Affordances as perceived action possibilities with valence may be cast into predicted policy-relative goodness and modeled GVFs. A systematic explication this connection shows that GVFs especially their deep-learning embodime...

Abstract Drawing from the social capital framework and socioemotional selectivity theory, this study examines how individuals’ future time perspective (FTP) alters their processes, which further influences well-being. A two-wave survey was conducted across WeChat users possessing different FTPs. The findings showed that bonding bridging accumulation were attributed to differential affordances, ...

1 Karel Kreijns, Open University of the Netherlands, Department of Natural and Technical Sciences, Heerlen, The Netherlands, [email protected] 2 Paul A. Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, Educational Technology Expertise Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Abstract  Field observations report that contemporary computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) env...