This study examined event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited in response to semantic processing of non-verbal stories. ERPs were recorded from 29 scalp electrodes on 16 participants while they viewed series of complex gray-scale pictures, each of which relayed a simple story. The final picture of each story was either congruous or incongruous with the preceding context. Participants made delaye...

In picture story exercises like the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Heckhausen, 1963), different pictures are presented to a person with the instruction to create a story using the scenes portrayed in the image. It is assumed, that people identify themselves with the people in the images and project their unconscious motives (e.g., achievement motive) onto them. As the TAT shows only men in th...

The present study examines the online realization of pragmatic meaning using event-related potentials (ERPs). Participants read sentences including the English quantifier some, which has both a semantic meaning (at least one) and a pragmatic meaning (not all). Unlike previous ERP studies of this phenomenon, sentences in the current study were evaluated not in terms of their truth with respect t...

Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Verwendung von User Stories für die Beschreibung von Anforderungen aus Sicht des e-Learning im Kontext der Einführung eines integrierten Campusmanagementsystems. Die User Stories bilden die Grundlage für die Kommunikation zwischen den Akteuren des e-Learning und den technischen Entwicklern des Campusmanagementsystems.

BACKGROUND/AIMS We investigated writing abilities in patients with the amnestic type of mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). To examine the earliest changes in writing function, we used writing tests for both words and sentences with different types of Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji). METHODS A total of 25 aMCI patients, 38 AD patients, and 2...

The purpose of this research was  to know the effect application picture story dominoes (PSD) through Google classroom and reading interest towards eighth grade students’ ability at junior high school 19 Palembang. Especially, study determine significant method is a quantitative factorial design that consists set questionnaires multiple choices test. result showed were effective on ability.

<p>The work is aimed at identifying the intertextuality of story Strugatsky brothers «Snail on slope». There are three studies devoted to names and allusions with works Kozma Prutkov, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Jorge Luis Borges. The results obtained complement general intertextual picture both Slope» entire A.N. B.N. Strugatsky.</p>

We assessed implicit needs for power, achievement, and affiliation in 323 U.S. college students using a Picture Story Exercise (PSE; McClelland, Koestner, & Weinberger, 1989) consisting of 6 picture cues and Winter's (1994) content coding system. Picture cues differed markedly in the amount of motive imagery they elicited and picture motive profiles closely resembled those reported by Schulthei...

This paper elaborates the project of creating picture-book stories for two to five years old Indonesian children, which highlight issue identity development in children. Erik Erikson’s eight stages psychosocial will be theoretical framework this paper. In first and second story, main characters pass through crisis autonomy versus shame doubt. They have strict overprotective parents that caused ...