In human communication, people adapt to each other and jointly activate behavior in different ways. In this pilot study, focusing on one individual (Cf2) in four interactions two types of co-activation, i.e. repetition and reformulation in two modalities, vocal-verbal and gestural are investigated in two ChineseChinese and two Chinese-Swedish videorecordings of university students’ first encoun...

The objective was to determine whether disturbances of aVective prosody constitute part of the symptomatology of schizophrenia. AVective prosody is defined here as a neuropsychological function that encompasses all non-verbal aspects of language that are necessary for recognising and conveying emotions in communication. Twenty six schizophrenic outpatients and twenty four normal controls underw...

Right-brain-damaged individuals may present discursive, pragmatic, lexical-semantic and/or prosodic disorders. Objective To verify the effect of right hemisphere damage on communication processing evaluated by the Brazilian version of the Protocole Montréal d'Évaluation de la Communication (Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery) - Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação, Bateria MAC,...

In human communication, people adapt to each other and jointly activate behavior in different ways. In this pilot study, focusing on one individual (Cf2) in four interactions two types of co-activation, i.e. repetition and reformulation in two modalities, vocal-verbal and gestural are investigated in two ChineseChinese and two Chinese-Swedish videorecordings of university students’ first encoun...

arabic and persian poems have numerous common points and poets of these two languages share the  same point in style, subject, structure and music of poetry. mahdi akhavan thaleth, famous iranian poet, and boland al-heidari, well-known iraqi poet,  are among poets who have many similarities in their works. as an example, there are some conceptual and verbal  similarities between qasedak and sae...

Among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), verbal learning and memory are areas of weakness compared other cognitive domains (e.g., visuospatial memory). In this study, previously deployed military veterans completed clinical assessments word vocabulary ( n = 243) a laboratory task measuring encoding, free recall, repetition priming, recognition words 147). Impaired was select...

In the current study, participants made a verbal naming response to prime target word flanked by distractor word, followed lexical decision probe or nonword, word. By tracking potential priming effects from having either become (attended repetition condition) (ignored condition), consistent positive and negative were obtained. These results broaden our understanding that stimulus-response bindi...

Verbal transformations refer to perceptual changes experienced while listening to a speech form cycled in rapid and continuous repetition. In order to test whether visual information from the speaker's articulatory gestures may modify the emergence and stability of verbal auditory percepts, participants were instructed to report any perceptual changes during unimodal, congruent audiovisual and ...

Spencer, Caroline E. M.S., Purdue University, August 2013. Preschool Language and Phonological Proficiencies in Predicting Stuttering Recovery or Persistence. Major Professor: Christine Weber-Fox The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between expressive and receptive language, phonological, and verbal working memory proficiencies in the preschool years and eventual recove...