This paper presents a story about consciousness and future of reception robots. A prototype version of reception robot is developed at university of Essex for university open days and Features that are mentioned in this paper are mostly based on it. Another part of story is a discussion about consciousness in robots. In this part, it is aimed to provide a picture of consciousness and answer som...

This article reports an investigation involving a series of studies carried out to critically examine the hypothesis that presence of 2 or 3 counterintuitive concepts in a story makes it more memorable than stories containing fewer or more such concepts. Our results paint a more complicated picture involving a number of interacting factors with contribution of the counterintuitive concepts to t...

hahve khane painting is influenced by naghali (narration) due to the atmosphere of narrating religious and mythical narration stories. examination of sound and illustration adaptation in this type of painting, considering the influence of naghali on ghahve khane painting, is the subject of this research. ghahve khane painting is divided into three categories by content: “martial”, “religious”, ...

Previous research showed that story illustrations fail to enhance young preschoolers' memories when they accompany a pre-recorded story (e.g., Greenhoot and Semb, 2008). In this study we tested whether young children might benefit from illustrations in a more interactive story-reading context. For instance, illustrations might influence parent-child reading interactions, and thus children's sto...

Two experiments examined the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Nonwords orthogonally varying in probability and density were taught with learning and retention measured via picture naming. Experiment 1 used a within-story probability/across-story density exposure context. Experiment 2 used an across-story probability...

University students (n = 86) revised their beliefs about story-based relationships in the face of new, contradictory information. Prior to resolving an inconsistency, students drew a picture depicting the story information. Participants’ resolution of logical inconsistencies reflected (a) the structure of the facts at hand and (b) the relationship conveyed by the major premise (All p are q). St...