Previous work showed that language has an important function for the development of action control. This study examined the role of verbal processes for action-effect learning in 4-year-old children. Participants performed an acquisition phase including a two-choice key-pressing task in which each key press (action) was followed by a particular sound (effect). Children were instructed to either...

The value of thinking aloud in usability tests depends on the content of the users’ verbalizations. We investigated moderated and unmoderated users’ verbalizations during relaxed thinking aloud (i.e., verbalization at levels 1 through 3). Verbalizations of user experience were frequent and mostly relevant to the identification of usability issues. Explanations and redesign proposals were also m...

Describing memory for a nonverbal perceptual stimulus can impair recognition. This verbal overshadowing effect may occur when perceptual expertise exceeds verbal expertise, but previous evidence for this hypothesis has been strictly correlational. We conducted two experiments, exploring the relation between expertise and verbal overshadowing by manipulating perceptual and conceptual knowledge. ...

Adult humans show sophisticated metacognitive abilities, including the ability to monitor uncertainty. Unfortunately, most measures of uncertainty monitoring are limited to use with adults due to their general complexity and dependence on explicit verbalization. However, recent research with nonhuman animals has successfully developed measures of uncertainty monitoring that are simple and do no...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is more useful for object-oriented code design than conceptual information analysis. Its process-centric use-cases provide an inadequate basis for specifying class diagrams, and its graphical language is incomplete, inconsistent and unnecessarily complex. For example, multiplicity constraints on n-ary associations are problematic, the constraint primitives ar...

This article investigates the influence of verbalization processes on the visual recognition performance of dynamic scenes. In the recognition phase different distractor items were used: event model incompatible and event model compatible. It was hypothesized that source confusion, which is said to be responsible for inducing the verbal overshadowing effect, is reduced with event model incompat...

This paper describes the linguistic part of a system called PROVERB, which transforms, abstracts, and verbalizes machine-found proofs into formated texts. Linguistically, the architecture of PROVERB follows most application oriented systems, and is a pipe-lined control of three components. Its macroplanner linearizes a proof and plans mediating communicative acts by employing a combination of h...

This note is devoted to an interactive game theoretic formalization of dialogues as psycholinguistic phenomena and the unraveling of a hidden dialogue structure (the “verbalization”) of 2-person differential interactive games. In the field-theoretic description of interactive games the dialogues are defined näıvely as interactive games of discrete time with intention fields of continuous time; ...

ABSTRACT Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate a program for implementing the PECS in children with non-verbal ASD or minimal verbalization school clinic belonging Unified Health System - SUS. Methods This is longitudinal study. sample consisted 22 nonverbal verbalization; 17 boys and 5 girls, aged 6 12 years old. 24 sessions individual speech language therapy presence family member fol...