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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Conceptual representation"”.
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Somatosensory Involvement in the Conceptual Representation of Objects
… system plays a large (if not entire) role in the conceptual representation of objects. Interestingly, however, although somatosensation provides the first means of acquiring information from our environments and thus is integral to the development of conceptual representation, research has …
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Short-term recall of sentences : conceptual representation or plausible reconstruction
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1989.
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Conceptual Representation of the Newtonian Model of Motion in University Physics Students
1 PDF file (274 pages)
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Conceptual representation of the Newtonian model of motion in university physics students
1 PDF file (XI, 259 pages)
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… study employs a cognitive linguistics approach, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to investigate bilingual conceptual representation. The study analyses the metaphorical and metonymic expressions commonly used among Akan-English bilinguals in Ghana to talk about different aspects of two basic …
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Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing
… emphasize the role of sensorimotor simulation in conceptual knowledge. With regard to action concepts, the motor system is hypothesized to play a central role in their representation and processing. The present study investigates whether patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who have greater …
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Generic Architecture for Predictive Computational Modelling with Application to Financial Data Analysis: Integration of Semantic Approach and Machine Learning
… a specific use case, an Ontology as the formal conceptual representation for the relevant domain knowledge is needed. I have determined to use financial/market data for my use cases. In the course of practical experiments, the effectiveness of the PCM model application for the UK companies’ …
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Translating conceptual metaphor in popular biomedical texts from English to Arabic
The current study explores the metaphorical conceptualisations of biomedical knowledge in online articles found in the English/American popular scientific magazine Scientific American and their translation in the Arabic Majallat Al Oloom. The study aims to reveal the translatability of metaphors …
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Thematic relations in adults' concepts and categorization
… significant effects on various forms of adults' conceptual thinking. Experiments 1-5 showed that whether the stimuli were verbal or pictorial, and whether subjects provided response justifications, they preferred to use thematic rather than taxonomic, similarity-based relations to construct …
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Lexical-syntactic representations in bilingual sentence production
… et al. (2004) therefore concluded that syntactic representations can be shared between languages in the bilingual lexicon. In this dissertation, we investigated how similar syntactic structures have to be in order to be shared (Chapters 2 & 3), whether similar structures are shared immediately …
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Conscious Conceptual Thought
… conscious experiences is constituted in part by conceptual representations, including conceptual representations which are independent of sensory representations. In Chapter 1 I present an overview of debates in cognitive phenomenology. In Chapter 2 I survey arguments throughout the history of …
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The Southern Accent and "Bad English": A Comparative Perceptual Study of the Conceptual Network between Southern Linguistic Features and Identity
… methodology, I produce a holistic conceptual representation of the identity invoked for each constellation of features for each group and provide a unified framework for features and corresponding associations that previous works have discussed individually. Finally, I analyze …
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Embodied-linguistic conceptual representations during metaphor processing
… linguists and psychologists alike, the conceptual representations involved have not been fully examined. In the present thesis, I propose metaphor processing should be viewed as an aspect of language processing, involving conceptual representations that are both embodied and linguistic. …
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Documentation art and Korean Bunche painting : an investigation of Deleuze’s Transcendental Realism through the painting process
… recasts Plato’s Idea and subverts the notion of representation derived from Kantian transcendental aesthetic. This is the basis of the aesthetics of Transcendental Realism which integrates Deleuze’s ‘transcendental aesthetics of sensation’ with the aesthetics of ‘view from Tao’, based on …
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Learning the meaning of new words: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence
… of storing, retrieving, and using new lexical representations. A number of behavioural experiments and one final fMRI study were conducted. Experiments 1-2 investigated effects of context variability (number of different contexts) and semantic richness (number and type of semantic features) on …
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An Electrophysiological Investigation of Embodied Language Processing
… proposed that nouns are indexed to mental representations (such as mental pictures) of the objects they refer to (Glenberg & Robertson, 1999). Subsequently, when a noun is processed, the affordances (behavioural possibilities) of the referent object are made available (e.g., a mug affords …