For scientific, clinical, and machine learning purposes alike, it is desirable to quantify the verbal reports of high-level visual percepts. Methods to do this simply do not exist at present. Here we propose a novel methodological principle to help fill this gap, and provide empirical evidence designed to serve as the initial "proof" of this principle. In the proposed method, subjects view imag...

The Australian Standard for safety-critical systems development, Def(Aust) 5679, was first released in 1998. As part of the release of Issue 2 (Department of Defence 2008) of the Standard, guidance material has been prepared to assist those who need to apply the Standard. The guidance is made up of three main parts: a case study that demonstrates how the Standard can be applied to an example sa...

The role of head-direction disparity was examined in one experiment that compared verbal responding with pointing in a task that entailed locating objects from imagined perspectives. Participants studied text descriptions of spatial scenes and then localized from memory objects in them after adopting imagined perspectives (i.e., face x, find y). Responses were made by selecting keys on the nume...

This paper addresses the question of how to account for verbal polysemy from a contrastive point of view. By examining the syntactic and semantic distribution of arguments of a selected number of English and German motion verbs, I intend to demonstrate the usefulness of Fillmore’s (1982) Frame Semantics for describing verbal argument realization patterns across languages. In this connection it ...

Twenty years ago Michael (1993) refined and extended the concept of the conditioned establishing operation (CEO). With this paper he updated his previous treatment of the topic (Michael, 1982) by providing terminological refinements and conceptually clear descriptions of the reflexive and transitive CEOs. In the 20 years since the publication of that paper there has been an increase in the appl...

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When giving descriptions, speakers often signify object shape or size with hand gestures. Such so-called ‘iconic’ gestures represent their meaning through their relevance to referents in the verbal content, rather than having a conventional form. The gesture form on its own is often ambiguous, and the aspect of the referent that it highlights is constrained by what the language makes salient. W...

Philosophers long have noted that some sensations (particularly those of color) seem to be ineffable, or refractory to verbal description. Some proposed neurophysiological explanations of this ineffability deny the intuitive view that sensations have inherently indescribable content. The present paper suggests a new explanation of ineffability that does not have this deflationary consequence. A...

Conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with non-verbal modalities for intelligible multimodal utterances. In this paper, we focus on the generation of gesture and speech fromXML-based descriptions of their overt form. An incremental production model is presented that combines the synthesis of synchronized gestural, verbal, and facial behaviors with mechanisms for linking them in f...