Background: Chess is a game that involves many aspects of high level cognition such as memory, attention, focus and problem solving. Long term practice of chess can improve cognition performances and behavioral skills. Auditory memory, as a kind of memory, can be influenced by strengthening processes following long term chess playing like other behavioral skills because of common processing pat...

Multilingualism and multiculturalism are verbally visually recurrent in the sitcom Family Guy (1999-in production) through a combination of main language communication (L1) other languages (L3) source (SL) or text (ST). The use L3 is tantamount to tokenism stereotyping characters, especially those whose recurrence incidental part jokes. This paper compares two versions episode “Road Rhode Islan...

McGurk and MacDonald (1976) reported a powerful multisensory illusion occurring with audiovisual speech. They recorded a voice articulating a consonant and dubbed it with a face articulating another consonant. Even though the acoustic speech signal was well recognized alone, it was heard as another consonant after dubbing with incongruent visual speech. The illusion has been termed the McGurk e...

This paper describes BenInq, an expert system for beneets inquiry in the insurance industry. BenInq is designed to be used by both customer service representatives, who answer customers' questions in real time, and policy modiiers, who update insurance products. The main challenges were the design of the KR structure | in particular, representing a huge knowledge base at varying levels of granu...

Age-related sensory and cognitive decline of older adults is typically not taken into consideration while designing accessible audiovisual services. As most studies on translation (AVT) media accessibility have focused young or adult audiences, we know little about specific preferences needs regarding AVT. In 2015, 82% Polish declared that they never almost go to the cinema, which for vast majo...

Over the last decades, role of teacher has changed due to developments in technology. Teachers now mainly provide direction and facilitate learning rather than being know-it-all master. Their new Net generation inevitably involves use multimedia Internet. Internet-based environments are student-centered allow learners be actively involved process. This paper presents how internet tools have dev...