Abstract This paper discusses a heuristic for generating a minimal number of true/complement patterns while still meeting Simultaneous Switching Output (SSO) requirements. The algorithm presented herein generates the patterns by construction, as opposed to selecting the patterns from a larger superset of possible patterns. This potentially offers advantages in time and memory, since no informat...

Perception of the human body appears to involve predictive simulations that project forward to track unfolding body-motion events. Here we use representational momentum (RM) to investigate whether implicit knowledge of a learned arbitrary system of body movement such as sign language influences this prediction process, and how this compares to implicit knowledge of biomechanics. Experiment 1 sh...

Abstract The present study provides insight into cross-language activation in hearing bimodal bilinguals by (1) examining co-activation of spoken words during processing signs bilingual users Dutch (their L1) and Sign Language the Netherlands (NGT; late learners) (2) investigating contribution mouthings to activation. NGT were presented with or without two sign-picture verification experiments....

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the items on the Time Out and the Sign Out of the Surgical Safety Checklist are properly checked by operating room (OR) staff and to explore whether the number of checked items is influenced by the severity of the intervention and the use of the checklist as a memory tool during the Time Out and the Sign Out periods. METHODS From March to July 2010, data were c...

Empirical studies evaluating speech and language intervention procedures applied to children with autism are reviewed, and the documented benefits are summarized. In particular, interventions incorporating sign language, discrete-trial training, and milieu teaching procedures have been used successfully to expand the communication repertoires of children with autism. Other important development...

It is widely assumed that sign languages are secondary semiotic phenomena that only come into being when deafness prevents the normal acquisition of a spoken language. That this is not always the case is well illustrated by the sign languages used by contemporary indigenous Australian groups (Kendon 1989), and the sign language shared by indigenous peoples of the Plains region of North America ...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Single Sign-On Clinic Card-Lösung zur zentralen Verwaltung von Gesundheitskarten im Krankenhaus. Ziel dieses Konzeptes ist es, die propagierten Effektivitätsund Effizienzverbesserungspotenziale, gegeben durch die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarten, vorteilhafter heben zu können, als es die bisher von der gematik spezifizierten Ansätze zur geplanten HBA-In...

Sign language descriptions that use an analytic model borrowed from spoken language structural linguistics have proved to be not fully appropriate. Pictorial and action-like modes of expression are integral to how signed utterances are constructed and to how they work. However, observation shows that speakers likewise use kinesic and vocal expressions that are not accommodated by spoken languag...