The debate over the nature of mental imagery, especially with respect to the interpretation of recent findings on the transformation of images, has failed to focus on the crucial differences between the so-called "analogue" and "prepositional" approaches. In this paper I attempt to clarify the disagreements by focusing on the alleged spatial nature of images and on recent findings concerned wit...

Winter weather can be a significant cause of road traffic accidents. This paper uses UKCIP climate change scenarios and a temporal analogue to investigate the relationship between temperature and severe road accidents in the West Midlands, UK. This approach also allows quantification of the changes in the severity of the winter season over the next century in the region. It is demonstrated that...

Therapist empathy is an important ingredient of successful psychotherapy. However, the specific factors that influence patients’ perceptions of therapist empathy remain unclear. We examined whether participants’ perceptions of a therapist differed as a function of the participant and therapist having had a similar salient experience (parental divorce). Participants were 136 undergraduates rando...

A viewer is a reference-valued datum with a special meaning: a value of the data pointed by the viewer becomes a virtual part of data where the viewer is placed; the value virtually substit.utes the viewer. Viewers are considered to be a dat,a-world analogue of procedure calls. They possess a large conceptual and pragmatic potential as a result of new data semantics on which we can base a varie...

NORWAY) AS A MARTIAN ANALOGUE. P. Sobron 1 , H. E. F. Amundsen 2 , A. Bauer 3 , J. L. Bishop 4 , F. Jordan 5 , J-L. Josset 5 , L. Josset 5 , R. Leveille 1 , S. M. Pugh 6 , N. Schmitz 7 , A. Steele 8 , A. Wang 9 , 1 Space Science and Technology. Canadian Space Agency, St. Hubert, QC ([email protected]). 2 Earth and Planetary Exploration Services, Oslo, Norway. 3 Joanneum Research, Graz,...

Audio watermarking has become an important technology for recording and advertisement industry. Today’s embedding and detection strategies often rely on digital or at least high quality channels, like CD or mp3. However for numerous applications, watermarks surviving noisy analogue environments are better suited or even necessary. Application of such schemes allows to identify audio signals wit...

AND MONTERDE, NORTHEAST SPAIN: AN ANALOGUE AQUEOUS ORIGIN Alberto G. Fairén, Ricardo Amils, Fernando Leandro, James M. Dohm, Dirk SchulzeMakuch, and Alexis P. Rodríguez. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049-Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. [email protected], Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC–INTA). 28850-Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid. Spain, Facultad de Geología, Universidad...

Most research on the determinants of Presence focuses on aspects within the technology. Research on user characteristics and how they affect Presence is rather scarce. This paper presents the results from a stepwise multiple regression analysis in which the experienced Presence in video games is predicted by a set of user characteristics, among which three psychological constructs: the perceive...

This paper argues that psychologists are only beginning to understand how global environmental issues may be related to the ways people create a ‘fit’ between themselves and their environment in order to survive. The notion of a person-environment fit is an analogue at the personal level of the concept of sustainable development at the level of society. Using knowledge from a wide range of beha...

The degree of digitalization in organizations has increased remarkably. This trend will continue if the so called natural laws of information technology are veracious. At the same time the format of communicated information has shifted from traditional face-to-face and analogue communication to digital communication forms, such as digital documents. Because information is increasingly available...