Skilled readers of Chinese participated in sorting and visual search experiments. The sorting results showed that under conditions of conflicting information about structure and component, subjective judgments of the visual similarity among characters were based on the characters' overall configurations (i.e., structures) rather than on the common components the characters possessed. In visual ...

We consider the representation of a visual speciication within a highly integrated environment which provides specialized support for the associated visual language. We state that such an environment needs to represent a visual speciication at four levels in order to perform its tasks: (1) the physical layout, (2) the pictorial structure, (3) the abstract structure , and (4) the representation ...

this article tends to analyze “the death of zahhak”; one of the paintings of the great shahnama “shahnama of shah tahmasb” which is done by soltan mohammad; based on semiotic and structural methods. by using library resources and content analyzing with the help of “actantial model” as a tool, coincidence of the narrative structure is studied in this persian painting. first of all, based on one ...

Understanding what is said in demanding listening situations is assisted greatly by looking at the face of a talker. Previous studies have observed that normal-hearing listeners can benefit from this visual information when a talker's voice is presented in background noise. These benefits have also been observed in quiet listening conditions in cochlear-implant users, whose device does not conv...