Recent work has identified the physical features of smiles that accomplish three tasks fundamental to human social living: rewarding behavior, establishing and managing affiliative bonds, and negotiating social status. The current work extends the social functional account to laughter. Participants (N = 762) rated the degree to which reward, affiliation, or dominance (between-subjects) was conv...

William Allaudin Mathieu (born in 1937) is a consummate musician, pianist, composer, author, and teacher — and, my view, one of the most influential musicians his generation. In early twenties he composed music for Kenton Ellington Big Bands, was founding musical director famed Second City Chicago (Improv Theater) pioneer 1960s application theater improvisation games into sphere. He author four...

surprise that a lowlevel sensorimotor manipulation systematically influences the behavior in a task only implicitly evoking the notion of number magnitude. However, sensory and motor processes, which have originally evolved for basic interactions with the environment, are reportedly exploited during abstract cognition [15]. Intriguingly, as head turning can influence one’s spontaneous spatial e...

Agent-based simulation methodology has shown merits to handle complex adaptive systems' spontaneity, non-linearity, uncertainty, relevancy and emergence. Based on the agent theory of modeling and simulation, this paper proposes a flexible, scalable and cross-domain framework for simulating complex adaptive systems. After discussion on the design of FFCAS, applications on FFCAS in different comp...

went over a large portion of the ground on which Dr. Bastian had taken up his stand, and refuted many of the fallacies which had misled the public.' Pasteur was so anxious to drive Dr. Bastian to the wall for the following reason, which we give in his own words, written to Dr. Bastian in 1877: 'Do you lenow why I desire so much to fight and conquer you ? It is because you are one of the princip...

Lack of spontaneous communicative initiations appears to be a consistent problem in individuals with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Fujiki & Brinton, 2009). Spontaneous communication is emitted at a much lower frequency compared to individuals with language impairment and typically developing persons. Deficits of spontaneity in social interaction have been identified explicitly i...