There has been recent debate over whether actions are processed primarily by means of motor simulation or cognitive semantics. The current study investigated how abstract action concepts are processed in the brain, independent of the format in which they are presented. Eighteen healthy adult participants viewed different actions (e.g., diving, boxing) in the form of verbs and schematic action p...

In this paper, we examine some basic linguistic abilities in a small sample of adults with minimal receptive vocabulary, whose mental verbal age ranges from 1;2 to 3;10. particular, whether the participants our study understand noun phrases consisting modified by an adjective. We use stimuli that they can recognise name. Except for one participant, find that, while all them and adjective isolat...

This paper reports an eye-tracking experiment conducted to compare alternative representations of directories typically shown on web pages in search of a best representation for deaf persons. The experiment simulated a directorybased information search task to understand how it is performed when directories are represented in text, labeledpictograms, or unlabeled-pictograms. Twenty-one deaf and...

Tobacco smoking is causal risk factor of at least 16 different types of cancer. In Mexico, smoking causes 6 035 premature deaths annually of lung cancer and 5 154 from other types. Additionally, 16 408 new smoking- attributable cases are diagnosed, causing high costs in the Mexican health sector. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the global strategy to reduce morbidity and mort...

The Development of the Greek Alphabet within the Chronology of the ANE Andrew Cross University of Calgary November 29, 2009 The transition from a pictogram based writing system to the alphabet transformed societies by bringing literacy to the masses. Pictogram based writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphics used more than 400 signs to represent syllables or objects, many of which had mult...

Pictogram communication is successful when participants at both end of the communication channel share a common pictogram interpretation. Not all pictograms carry universal interpretation, however; the issue of ambiguous pictogram interpretation must be addressed to assist pictogram communication. To unveil the ambiguity possible in pictogram interpretation, we conduct a human subject experimen...