Background: Learning disability is one of the most noticed subjects for behavioral specialists. Most of the learning difficulties are caused by senso-motor development and neurological organization. The main purpose of the present research is to examine the role of delayed perceptual-motor development and brain damage in origination of expressive writing disorder (EWD).   Methods: The studi...

emphasizing on the structural aspects of theatre of the absurd as a modern form of drama development, the present paper studies some of the principles of this dramatic school in bahman farsi's plays of 1340s. one of these principles is farsi's new understanding of dramatic action which is the most important element in conveying the author's intended concepts. affected by theatre ...

We introduce the concept of Expressive Performance Generated Composition where the initial specification for a composition comes from the details of an expressive performance. This expressive performance may have been of a previous piece or be specially produced for the composition. The expressive deviations in the performance are used to generate a meaningful interpretation of the performance ...

In our experience, a robot designer, behavior architect, and animator must work closely together to create an interactive robot with expressive, dynamic behavior. This paper describes lessons learned from these collaborations, as well as a set of tools and techniques developed to help facilitate the collaboration. The guiding principles of these tools and techniques are to allow each collaborat...

Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, two major emotion regulation strategies, are differentially related to emotional well-being. The aim of this study was to test the association of individual differences in these two emotion regulation strategies with gray matter volume of brain regions that have been shown to be involved in the regulation of emotions. Based on high-resolution ma...

The T-R Trees software system is a set of software tools for the graphical and programmatic manipulation of expressive and structural hierarchies in music composition. It is loosely based on the hierarchies described in Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoof’s landmark book A Generative Theory of Tonal Music—weighted grouping and prolongational reduction trees (also called tension-relaxation or T-R tr...

  Poetry translation involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human s and textual a c- tors in physical and social settings. The aim of this study was to find out to what extent the non - native translator of Nizami Ganjavi’s “Leili and Majnun” could preserve the poetic imagery in its English translation. To this end, an innovative taxonomic model, which could investiga...