In this paper dance is used as an application area, as well as a metaphor for studying how to build digital multimedia libraries that comprise moving images accompanied by sound and other media. The use of protocol analysis is suggested as a knowledge acquisition method for eliciting verbal descriptions of dance. Such descriptions may be used to annotate dance videos to facilitate their storage...

Verbal overshadowing reflects the impairment in memory performance following verbalization of nonverbal stimuli. However, it is not clear whether the same mechanisms are responsible for verbal overshadowing effects observed with different stimuli and task demands. In the present article, we propose a multiprocess view that reconciles the main theoretical explanations of verbal overshadowing der...

This work investigates to what degree speakers with different verbal intelligence may adapt to each other. The work is based on a corpus consisting of 100 descriptions of a short film (monologues), 56 discussions about the same topic (dialogues), and verbal intelligence scores of the test participants. Adaptation between two dialogue partners was measured using cross-referencing, proportion of ...

Empathy is important for good verbal navigation instructions. The present study examined the relationship between verbal route descriptions and personal characteristics of empathy using a verbal navigation task and the Japanese Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI-J). In the verbal navigation task, participants were presented a maze map and were instructed to provide verbal route instructions to...

The article compares the verbal description of names thirty-four fruits in Polish dictionaries, taking into account descriptions tastes definitions and their relationship with structure definitions. bases polymodal are analysed differences way they interpreted revealed. Standards for perception Polish, Russian, Ukrainian English highlighted.

For the Western Iranian languages the transition from the Old Iranian to the Middle-Iranian period is characterised by – among other things – the loss of word-final syllables. This loss had a far-reaching impact on the nominal and verbal systems since it caused the loss of categories which had been expressed by suffixes. The consequences include the emergence of the so-called ergative system. ...

Query specification for 3D object retrieval still relies on traditional interaction paradigms. The goal of our study was to identify the most natural methods to describe 3D objects, focusing on verbal and gestural expressions. Our case study uses LEGO R © blocks. We started by collecting a corpus involving ten pairs of subjects, in which one participant requests blocks for building a model from...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Using an interpretation training paradigm, previous research has demonstrated that it is possible to modify interpretation biases in socially anxious children and that trained interpretation bias affects important aspects of social anxiety (Vassilopoulos, Banerjee, & Prantzalou, 2009). The current experiment was designed to replicate and extend the results reported by ...

This study had two purposes. First, in order to address the controversy regarding activation of the primary visual area (PVA) during visual mental imagery, regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was recorded while subjects performed a task that required high-resolution visual mental imagery. Second, in order to discover whether verbal descriptions can engage visual mechanisms during imagery in the...