The article analyzes modern design practices based on symbolic and ornamental motives of folk art their actualization in ethno-artistic areas, reflecting the relationship traditional aspects with innovative, translation cultural experience time space, creating value images, enhancing emotional environment new narratives. Symbols, as basis existence people, reflect ethno- national culture, is an...

This paper uses a model of neural networks and genetic algorithms to simulate the evolution of communication in populations of evolving neural networks. It focuses on the emergence of simple forms of syntax, i.e. the combination of two symbols. The simulation task resembles SavageRumbaugh & Rumbaugh’s experiment [11] on ape language and symbol acquisition. The simulation results show the evolut...

arsacid monarchy as the third iranian dynasty played an important role in the ancient era for five centuries. however, due to the inadequacy of written documents from that era, coins are considered precious sources for us to identify the political, historical, cultural, artistic, and religious views and ideas of that time, i.e. arsacid kings. concerning the similarities between the employed sym...

Graphic symbols are commonly used across countries in order to support individuals with communicative deficiency. The literature review revealed the absence of such a system for Turkish socio-cultural context. In this study, the aim was to develop a symbol system appropriate for the Turkish socio-cultural context. The process began with studies designed to delineate the scope of the proposed sy...

In this paper I will introduce a vernacular emblem, a copper peacock with an open tail which resembles the form of hand and a tiny miniature sculpture of lion, adjacent to the peacock feet. This sacred Shi’it item consists of symbols which have always been presented during Muharram rituals, conveying a number of iconography connotations. Comparison this figure with other&nb...

The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and older children. But almost nothing is known about how different parenting and socialization practices in different cultures affect infants' and young children's earliest emerging cognitive and social-cognitive skills. In the current monograph, we report a series of eight studies in which we systematically a...