in this study, it was intended to investigate the persian native speakers’ perception of gerunds by three different elicitation techniques i.e., written, audio, and pictorial through translation. eighty intermediate learners of english were asked to select persian translation of the gerund formsin these elicitation techniques. they were asked to choose one option from a pair of written first la...

Background: Tobacco packaging is an important form of promotion. Standardizing cigarette packages (‘plain’ packaging) represents a novel tobacco control policy. This study examined perceptions of branded and standardized cigarette packages among British youth. Methods: Seven hundred twelve youth aged 11–17 completed an online survey. Participants viewed pairs of packages altered using a 3 2 fac...

A “picture” is a flat object covered with pigments in a certain pattern. Human observers, when looking “into” a picture (photograph, painting, drawing, . . . say) often report to experience a three-dimensional “pictorial space.” This space is a mental entity, apparently triggered by so called pictorial cues. The latter are sub-structures of color patterns that are pre-consciously designated by ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between the pictorial graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and their impact on intention to quit smoking among women. METHODS Population-based cross-sectional study among 265 women daily smokers in the State of Paraná in 2010. The sample size was calculated using cluster sampling. Participants were asked whether they had seen any pictorial graphic he...

The iSquare Research Program is an arts-informed, visual study in which people answer the question “What is information?” in the form of a compact line drawing, coined an “iSquare” (Hartel, 2014a). Since 2011, more than 2,000 iSquares have been collected from diverse academic disciplines and from around the world. In this presentation, Dr. Jenna Hartel will provide an overview of the iSquare pr...

Operative Manual of Neurosurgery: A Step by Pictorial Atlas, published Jaypee Brothers and authored Dr. Balaji Pai his team comprising Asima Banu Sandesh Khandelwal, is a two-volume visual delight. This operative atlas neurosurgery the sweet product Pai's “labor intense fascination love for fine art neurosurgery.” Balaji, in preface, highlights that focus this venture to teach through photograp...

We show that image statistics can be used to analyze and transfer simple notions of pictorial style of paintings and photographs. We characterize the frequency content of pictorial styles, such as multi-scale, spatial variations, anisotropy properties, using a multi-scale and oriented decomposition, the steerable pyramid. We show that the average of the absolute steerable coefficients as a func...

Neuroscientific investigations regarding aspects of emotional experiences usually focus on one stimulus modality (e.g., pictorial or verbal). Similarities and differences in the processing between the different modalities have rarely been studied directly. The comparison of verbal and pictorial emotional stimuli often reveals a processing advantage of emotional pictures in terms of larger or mo...

Research on the influence of reference frames has generally focused on visual phenomena such as the oblique effect, the subjective visual vertical, the perceptual upright, and ambiguous figures. Another line of research concerns mental rotation studies in which participants had to discriminate between familiar or previously seen 2-D figures or pictures of 3-D objects and their rotated versions....