We present an artificial cognitive system for learning visual concepts. It comprises of vision, communication and manipulation subsystems, which provide visual input, enable verbal and non-verbal communication with a tutor and allow interaction with a given scene. The main goal is to learn associations between automatically extracted visual features and words that describe the scene in an open-...

In this study we investigated whether synaesthesia is associated with a particular cognitive style. Cognitive style refers to preferred modes of information processing, such as a verbal style or a visual style. We reasoned that related to the enriched world of experiences created by synaesthesia, its association with enhanced verbal and visual memory, higher imagery and creativity, synaesthetes...

We respond to the call for more research into entanglement between multiple (including non-visual and non-verbal) modes of communication within organizations by exploring relationships rhetoric materiality. draw on archival sources concerning Founder’s Building at Royal Holloway College (1874–1897). discuss building as a multimodal material object, inherently multiple, fluid messy: is open enco...

Gender representation has long been studied in both verbal and visual modes of ELT textbooks. However, regarding the visual mode, research has mainly focused on superficial analyses of how often each gender appears in different roles rather than on how the two genders are represented. The tools proposed in Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) social semiotics framework, however, permit deep ana...

Down syndrome (DS) is associated with a specific verbal short-term memory (STM) deficit. This study explored the effects of grouping, semantic relations and visual presentation upon verbal STM recall performance in a group of 15 individuals with DS and 15 vocabulary-matched typically developing (TD) children. Participants were presented with memoranda in either a temporally grouped schedule, su...

This paper presents results of cognitive multimodal analysis English to Ukrainian and Russian translations verbal, visual verbal-visual puns found in the American animated tragicomedy sitcom “BoJack Horseman”. We have that translation verbal presupposes overcoming constraints caused by linguacultural specificity pun-producing source-text linguistic expressions (idioms and/or allusions). Transla...