Intersemiotic translation, which can happen in the process of the translation of drama for theatre, can turn more complicated when the verbal sign system of drama has already undergone interlingual translation. The purpose of this study is to find the intersemiotic changes of translation from page to stage and to show the changes of indexical, iconic, and symbolic signs in the process of inters...

Are there empirical regularities in the shapes of letters and other human visual signs, and if so, what are the selection pressures underlying these regularities? To examine this, we determined a wide variety of topologically distinct contour configurations and examined the relative frequency of these configuration types across writing systems, Chinese writing, and nonlinguistic symbols. Our fi...

Two experiments test predictions of a visual process-driven model of multi-term arithmetic computation. The visual process model predicts that attention should be drawn toward multiplication signs more readily than toward plus signs, and that narrow spaces should draw gaze comparably to multiplication signs. Although both of these predictions are verified by behavioral response measures and eye...

one of the important elements of islamic architecture is mirror and mirror work. the art of mirror work is a persian traditional art which is usually used in the interior decoration of historical buildings, particular religious buildings. mirror work is considered as a kind of mural painting, but it is different from other types of mural paintings all around the world regarding its conceptual, ...

Is it possible to reason by means of images? If it is, then with what kind of images can we organize thoughts? How can the rules governing the relations between images be established? Could these relations be as complex and productive as those defined within the grammar of the verbal language? The basic construction of any language, especially a developed one, is a structure of formal rules whi...

AIM To investigate extent and nature of visual pathways involvement in children with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS Forty-seven patients (age 11-17y) with CIS, which later proved to be multiple sclerosis (MS) onset, and 30 controls underwent visual evoked potentials (VEP) investigation within 12d from the appearance of the first signs of disease. Latency and amplitude of P100 pea...