INTRODUCTION There is substantial evidence for Theory of Mind (ToM) deficits in patients with schizophrenia. Many psychotic symptoms may best be understood in light of an impaired capacity to infer one's own and other persons' mental states and to relate those to executing behavior. The aim of our study was to investigate ToM abilities in first-episode schizophrenia patients and to analyze them...

In theater as a bodily-spatial art form, much emphasis is placed on the way actors perform movements in space an important multimodal resource for creating meaning. rehearsals, are created series of directors' instructions and actors' implementations. Directors' how to conduct movement often draw embodied demonstrations contrast verbal descriptions. For instance, instruct actress act like schoo...

Background Paradoxical lucidity is characterized by spontaneous mental clarity with verbal or non-verbal communication behavior among people AD who had previously been thought to lack the cognitive capacity do so. With a paucity of data available, family caregivers (FCGs) provide critical perspectives on characteristics these episodes (EL). Method Twenty-four FCGs witnessed at least one EL were...

In this paper we investigate whether conventional text categorization methods may suffice to infer different verbal intelligence levels. This research goal relies on the hypothesis that the vocabulary that speakers make use of reflects their verbal intelligence levels. Automatic verbal intelligence estimation of users in a spoken language dialog system may be useful when defining an optimal dia...

Audiodescription (AD) is a growing arts and media access service for visually impaired people. As a practice rooted in intermodal mediation, i.e. 'translating' visual images into verbal descriptions, it is in urgent need of interdisciplinary research-led grounding. Seeking to stimulate further research in this field, this paper aims to discuss the major dimensions of AD, give an overview of com...

A growing body of research suggests that comprehending verbal descriptions of actions relies on an internal simulation of the described action. To assess this motor resonance account of language comprehension, we first review recent developments in the literature on perception and action, with a view towards language processing. We then examine studies of language processing from an action simu...

Information is often multidimensional, dynamic and difficult to communicate using traditional representations such as verbal descriptions or even graphics. With the development of advanced visualization technology, it is possible to create more effective representations. Taking a distributed cognition perspective and integrating several theories of visualization, I have formulated a theoretical...

Lists of complex pictures, not easily encoded verbally, were presented to subjects who recalled them by writing brief descriptions. The lists were 10, 20, and 40 pictures in length. Recall failed to show the primacy and recency effects seen with verbal materials, but was lower for pictures in longer lists. This argues for serial-position effects based in short-term memory and independent list-l...

This paper outlines the linguistic semantic commitments underlying an application which automatically constructs depictions of verbal spatial descriptions. Our approach draws on the ideational view of linguistic semantics developed by Ronald Langacker in his theory of Cognitive Grammar, and the conceptual representation of physical objects from the two-level semantics of Bierwisch and Lang. In ...