Intercultural features of cognitive processes

How College Students Experience Intercultural Learning: Key Features and Approaches

Many colleges and universities in the United States aim to promote intercultural competence in their students. However, most research on this outcome has focused on the content of educational programs (what educators offer) rather than on how students experience intercultural learning. This qualitative inquiry from the Wabash National Study analyzed 207 intercultural experiences from 161 colleg...

Face Recognition by Cognitive Discriminant Features

Face recognition is still an active pattern analysis topic. Faces have already been treated as objects or textures, but human face recognition system takes a different approach in face recognition. People refer to faces by their most discriminant features. People usually describe faces in sentences like ``She's snub-nosed'' or ``he's got long nose'' or ``he's got round eyes'' and so like. These...

Control of Cognitive Processes

We define the problem addressed at the eighteenth Attention and Performancesymposium as that of explaining how voluntary control is exerted over the organizationand activation of cognitive processes in accordance with current goals, without appealingto an all-powerful but ill-defined “executive” or controlling “homunculus.” We providebackground to the issues and approaches repre...

Qualitative Features of MA Processes

Internationalisation, intercultural communication and intercultural competence

This article assumes that the internationalization of higher education demands more elaborate pedagogical approaches to utilise the experiences of multiethnic student groups and to facilitate every student’s acquisition of intercultural competencies. Drawing from three internationalisation ideologies embedded in the educational discourse, it is argued that intercultural communication – as a fie...