The aim of the study was to find out how EEG rhythmical patterns change with gradual changes of a degree of verbal and spatial thinking involved in the process of task solving. The obtained data allowed us to draw two principally new conclusions. 1. During performance of mixed tasks the spatial and verbal thinking do not mix, and their rhythmical signs are both present with their basic properti...

This study investigates the mediating role of visual-verbal redundancy on the impact of three features, namely, message sensation value (MSV), message cognition value (MCV), and smoking scenes, on the perceived effectiveness of antismoking messages among young adults. Recent literature examining the effects of the three major message characteristics presents contradictory results, which is argu...

We conducted an experiment in which children and adults were asked to learn a set of categories for which a single-feature rule (the criterial attribute) or overall family resemblance would allow for perfect performance. Test stimuli were presented after the category was learned and were designed such that the information provided by the rule conflicted with the information provided by the fami...

This paper is based on an extant lexicon-grammar of European Portuguese verbal idioms (e.g., deitar mãos à obra, literally, ̳to throw hands to the work‘, ̳to start working‘.). This a database containing about 2,400 expressions, along with all relevant information on the sentence structure, distributional constraints and transformational properties of these frozen sentences. In this paper, we pr...

Structural information in language is important for obtaining a better understanding of a human communication (e.g., sentence segmentation, speaker turns, and topic segmentation). Human communication involves a variety of multimodal behaviors that signal both propositional content and structure, e.g., gesture, gaze, and body posture. These non-verbal signals have tight temporal and semantic lin...

We propose the application of ubiquitous sensor technology to capturing and analyzing the dynamics of multi-party human-to-human conversational interactions. Based on a model of conversational participation structure, we present an analysis of conversational interactions in the open interaction space of a poster presentation session. We argue that the patterns of transition of the conversationa...

This article presents a three steps algorithm for morphological disambiguation between the definite article and the personal pronoun in French language. Tested accuracy in a large untagged corpora exceeds 98% with less than 1% of error. Our method has been also experimented on unlabeled Greek corpora and the results prove the system’s portability to other languages with similar structure. Not a...

The retrosplenial cortex is a cytoarchitecturally distinct brain structure located in the posterior cingulate gyrus and bordering the splenium, precuneus, and calcarine fissure. Functional imaging suggests that the retrosplenium is involved in memory, visuospatial processing, proprioception, and emotion.We report on a patient who developed reversible verbal and visual memory deficits following ...

HE retirement is a concept of recent origin though it could be traced to Indian philosophy. The reasons related to voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) of Government of India and its response by public sector employees have been analyzed in this paper. There are number of reasons for opting to VRS like doing some business, job dissatisfaction, health and personal reasons. There exists variation in...

If a person who is intrinsically motivated to perform an activity begins to receive external reinforcement for the activity, what will happen to his intrinsic motivation? Previous studies and the present study indicate that money decreases intrinsic motivation, while verbal reinforcements tend to enhance intrinsic motivation. The beginning of a cognitive evaluation theory is discussed, and an a...