In this article we present the bases for a computational theory of the cognitive processes underlying human communication. The core of the article is devoted to the analysis of the phases in which the process of comprehension of a communicative act can be logically divided: (1) literal meaning, where the reconstruction of the mental states literally expressed by the actor takes place: (2) speak...

Abstract In this article, I explore the implications of three moral grounds for justification supported voting – respect as opacity, equal status, and political care. For each ground, ask whether it justifies surrogate voters unable to either communicate or give effect their electoral judgments, due some cognitive communicative disability. (Henceforth: incommunicability cases.) argue that opaci...

Humanlike robots are designed to communicate with people using human verbal and nonverbal language. Social gaze cues play an important role in this communication. Although research in human-robot interaction has shown that people understand these gaze cues and interpret them as valid signals for human communication, whether they can serve as effective communicative mechanisms and lead to signif...

Walking is of interest to psychology, robotics, zoology, neuroscience and medicine. Human's ability to walk on two feet is considered to be one of the defining characteristics of hominoid evolution. Evolutionary science propses that it emerged in response to limited environmental resources; yet the processes supporting its emergence are not fully understood. Developmental psychology research su...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...

Language is a human element which developed according to cultural and ideological developments of humanity. Consequently, translation linguistic studies develop too. Cognitive metaphor one the clearest examples that proves language development as it has proven how can transfer from being rhetorical tool communicative tool. In other words, in modern linguistics, cognitive communicative-linguisti...

In this study, we investigate pauses and durational patterns in Mandarin spontaneous conversation, as well as investigate how reliably such elements can serve as boundary-marking predictors across different types of speech modes and how language activities are affected by their cognitive correlates. Our results show that pause duration is significantly correlated with specific boundary status. ...

Young children with developmental (cognitive) delays experience unusual difficulties in establishing relationships with their peers and developing friendships. A conceptual model of children’s peer-related social competence is presented by identifying information-processing and emotional regulation processes governing the production of social strategies occurring during social tasks. Contempora...