what reluctantly ventured outside the domain of the standard Nippon collector with the acquisition of the pictured Japanese vase. I will not go into a great descriptive as the pictures speak for themselves. This is a wonderful example of a moriage style Nippon era vase. It is a significant Art Nouveau piece measuring 11 7/8” (30 cm) high and 5” (12.6 cm) wide at the handles and includes a wrap ...

Finn and Roediger (Psychological science 22:781-786, 2011) found that when a negative emotional picture was presented immediately after a successful retrieval, later test performance was enhanced as compared to when a neutral picture or a blank screen had been shown. This finding implicates the period immediately following retrieval as playing an important role in determining later retention vi...

In three experiments, subjects studied photographs presented alone or followed by a descriptive sentence. The sentence provided additional information not available in the picture. Subsequent yes-no recognition tests for the pictures demonstrated better memory for those pictures that had been followed by descriptive sentences. Experiment 1 showed that described pictures were remembered better r...

Psychotic disorders are characterized by profoundly blunted neural responses to errors, as indicated by reductions in two event-related potential (ERP) components: the error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe). The potential utility of the ERN and Pe as biomarkers for psychotic disorders is currently limited, however, by an incomplete understanding of their psychometric propertie...

In this paper we present the concepts of drawn symbolic picture and symbolic picture. Such notions have been conceived as an extension of the concept of drawn pictures which was introduced by Maurer, Rozenberg and Welzl [31]. We provide a string description of such pictures. It consists of alternating words, i.e. strings whose letters are in alternation from an alphabet of symbols and an alphab...

In two experiments, we showed that irrelevant numerical information influenced the speed of sentence-picture verification. Participants were asked to verify whether the concept mentioned in a sentence matched the object presented in a subsequent picture. Concurrently, the number word attached to the concept in the sentence and the quantity of objects presented in the picture were manipulated (n...

The OFAI Multimodal Task Description Corpus (OFAI-MMTD Corpus) is a collection of dyadic teacher-learner (human-human and human-robot) interactions. The corpus is multimodal and tracks the communication signals exchanged between interlocutors in task-oriented scenarios including speech, gaze and gestures. The focus of interest lies on the communicative signals conveyed by the teacher and which ...