nima yooshij applied various techniques in order to describe diverse poetic subjects. this research deals with analysing the usage of these expressive techniques from two perspectives - poetic and structural. nima applied structural expressive techniques more often than poetic expressive techniques in order to describe various poetic subjects. these techniques include adjectives, adverbs, adjec...

Chess is an appropriate model to study ability and non-ability traits as related with performance because it bears intellectual emotional demanding requirements. With a group of amateur chess players (n = 100), the current addressed two interrelated aims. First, we assessed whether three broad PEN personality factors (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), emotion regulation (cognitive reapp...

Background:Addiction is regarded as one of the most important social issues influencing all aspects of people’s lives including personal, social, physical, and mental aspects. Given the increasing rate of the disease and its associated irreparable damages to a patient’s life and the community, this disease and its methods of preventing and treating should especially be taken into consideration....

Whereas experimental studies on emotional speech often control for neutral semantics, speech in naturalistic speech corpora is characterized by contextual cues and non-neutral semantic content. Moreover, the target emotion of an utterance is generally unknown and must be inferred by the listener. Within the context of having child-directed expressive text-to-speech synthesis as goal, we describ...

Based on evidence suggesting that depressive traits, emotional information processing, and the effects of nicotine may be mediated by lateralized brain mechanisms, analyses assessed the influence of depressive traits and nicotine patch on emotional priming of lateralized emotional word identification in 61 habitual smokers. Consistent with hypotheses, nicotine as compared to placebo patch enhan...

BACKGROUND There is lack of neuroscientific studies investigating music processing with naturalistic stimuli, and brain responses to real music are, thus, largely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study investigates event-related brain potentials (ERPs), skin conductance responses (SCRs) and heart rate (HR) elicited by unexpected chords of piano sonatas as they were originally arra...

This paper presents ongoing research on the modelling of expressive gesture in multimodal interaction and on the development of multimodal interactive systems explicitly taking into account the role of non-verbal expressive gesture in the communication process. In this perspective, a particular focus is on dance and music as first-class conveyors of expressive and emotional content. Research ou...