The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the designer can use and exploit results obtained by applying different methods and techniques of cognitive ergonomics. In particular, this study made use of the Eye-tracking tool and other qualitative projective techniques in order to assess the user perception based on different attributes in different contests (from packaging to jewelry, car seats a...

Introduction. The present study was intended to evaluate the effects of a rehabilitative training, the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (CPT), aimed at improving communicative-pragmatic abilities and the related cognitive components, on the cerebral modifications of a single case patient diagnosed with schizophrenia. Methods. The patient underwent two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) s...

OBJECTIVE The proportion of schoolchildren with mild social communicative deficits far exceeds the number diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). We aimed to ascertain both the population distribution of such deficits and their association with functional adaptation and cognitive ability in middle childhood. METHOD The parent-report Social and Communication Disorders Checklist was...

This paper describes findings from a Human-to-Human Interaction experiment that examines human communicative non-verbal facial behaviour. The aim was to develop a more comfortable and effective model of social human-robot communication. Analysis of the data revealed a strong cooccurrence between human blink production and non-verbal communicative behaviours of own speech instigation and complet...

The article is concerned with the problem of functional potential fictional text, and its activation in process literary communication. functions terms basic, secondary particular ones have been classified according to their conceptual significance. model text includes seven basic functions; aesthetic, communicative, stylistic, cognitive, social, cultural interpretative, first one playing domin...

this paper highlights the folk perception of impoliteness among ghanaians in view of watts’ (2003) notion of first order impoliteness. the study showed that impoliteness is not just an opposite of politeness, but the manifestation of non-cooperation, disapproval, and mutual antipathy through certain communicative behaviours that signal disrespect. these communicative behaviours include ‘interru...

The successful navigation of social interactions depends on a range of cognitive faculties-including the ability to achieve joint attention with others to share information and experiences. We investigated the influence that intention monitoring processes have on gaze-following response times during joint attention. We employed a virtual reality task in which 16 healthy adults engaged in a coll...

There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...