Recent studies suggest common neural substrates involved in verbal and visual working memory (WM), interpreted as reflecting shared attention-based, short-term retention mechanisms. We used a machine-learning approach to determine more directly the extent to which common neural patterns characterize retention in verbal WM and visual WM. Verbal WM was assessed via a standard delayed probe recogn...

Our knowledge of the world comes to us through sensory channels. We sense light or dark; hot or cold; and pleasure or pain. This is how we understand and interpret our environment. From birth we learn what these sensory experiences mean and how society expects us to respond to them. This sensory language is highly contextual and inherently dynamic. However, the traditional methods of visual and...

This paper aims to explore the linguistic and visual choices used by writer illustrator in order create meaning fantasy picturebook One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Blue Dads (1994), written Johnny Valentine illustrated Melody Sarecky, which features a gay family. The analytical tools employed this study deconstruct meanings said are Kress van Leeuwen’s (2006) Visual Social Semiotics Painter et al.’s (...

Exploratory research into the role of visual and verbal working memory in diagrammtic reasoning is presented. Eighty subjects participated in an experiment where thirty-four different gain/loss problems were represented in sentential and graphical form. In order to test the role of each component of Baddeley’s model of working memory, subjects performed verbal, visual, and mental suppression ta...