Exploratory research into the role of visual and verbal working memory in diagrammtic reasoning is presented. Eighty subjects participated in an experiment where thirty-four different gain/loss problems were represented in sentential and graphical form. In order to test the role of each component of Baddeley’s model of working memory, subjects performed verbal, visual, and mental suppression ta...

Text classification techniques mostly rely on single term analysis of the document data set, while more concepts especially the specific ones are usually conveyed by set of terms. To achieve more accurate text classifier, more informative feature including frequent co-occurring words in the same sentence and their weights are particularly important in such scenarios. In this paper, we propose a...

Phonological variation in speech production can neutralize phonemic distinctions. In some cases, the alternations also create lexical ambiguity, as in the sentence “A quick rum picks you up,” where the underlined sequence could be interpreted as either rum or as a place assimilated form of run. Three cross-modal priming experiments examined the perceptual resolution of these ambiguities. In a n...

In this paper, we place some left restrictions on derivations in CD grammar systems with phrase-structure grammars, controlled by the regular languages. The first restriction requires that every production is always applied within the first k nonterminals in every sentential form, for some k ≥ 1. The second restriction says how many blocks of non-terminals can be in each sentential form. The th...

The optimization of computing systems hosted on Boolean-circuit-based computing equipment must be expressed at some level in Boolean behaviors and operations. Boolean behaviors and operations are part of a larger family of logics -the logic of sentences, also known as the "sentential calculus". Two logics are implicationally equivalent if the axioms and inference rules of each imply the axioms ...

We present a method for learning word meanings from complex and realistic video clips by discriminatively training (DT) positive sentential labels against negative ones, and then use the trained word models to generate sentential descriptions for new video. This new work is inspired by recent work which adopts a maximum likelihood (ML) framework to address the same problem using only positive s...

Given a sentential logic S there exists a least sentential logic ad S associated with the set S Thm of the theorems of . S If the logic S is equivalential, then the behavioral theorems of S Thm can be determined by an equivalence system for , S but, possibly, they may also be determined by any admissible equivalence system, i.e., an equivalence system for . ad S Babenyshev and Martins studied t...

Nygaard and Lunders (2002) have shown that emotional prosody impacts the resolution of lexical ambiguity during spoken language, yet sentential meaning is often ignored (Snedeker, 2008). The integration of linguistic and non-linguistic cues to speech is vital for successful interpretation of intent. Experiment 1 evaluated the perception of sentential contexts with emotional prosody (e.g., irrit...

The optimization of computing systems incorporating Boolean-circuit-based computing equipment must be expressed at some level in Boolean behaviors and operations. Boolean behaviors and operations are part of a larger family of logics -the logic of sentences, also known as the "sentential calculus". Two logics are implicationally equivalent if the axioms and inference rules of each imply the axi...

The acquisition of Mental State Verbs (MSVs) has been extensively studied in respect to their common occurrence with sentential complement syntax. However, MSVs also occur in a variety of other syntactic structures. Moreover, other verb classes frequently occur with sentential complements, e.g., Communication and Perception verbs. The similarity in distribution of the various verb classes over ...