“Are you saying …?”

I see what you are saying

The motor cortex in the brain tracks lip movements to help with speech perception.

What are you saying? Using topic to detect financial misreporting*

Detection models of financial misreporting have evolved beyond basic quantitative or financial measures to include textual or linguistic characteristics of firms’ disclosures. While these textual analysis methods provide incremental power in identifying misreporting, they examine how content is being disclosed as opposed to what is being disclosed. This study introduces a novel fraud-detection ...

On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1

The power of saying thank you.

One of the things I like best about living in America, or at least North Carolina, is that almost everyone is up for a conversation, almost all of the time. I’m walking down to the parking deck, or around downtown Durham, or off East Campus, and the stranger I walk past says “Hi, how are ya?” I’ve learned that the correct answer is, “I’m good, how are you?” After that the conversation can go of...

I See What You Are Saying: Action as Cognition in fMRI Brain Mapping Practice∗

In cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to produce images of brain functions. These images play a central role in the practice of neuroscience. In this paper we are interested in how these brain images become understandable and meaningful for scientists. In order to explore this problem we observe how scientists use such semiotic resources as gesture, lan...