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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mind reading"”.
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Mind reading as behaviour reading: Behavour analysis and perspective taking
Theory of Mind (ToM) presents perspective-taking as an ability to infer another person’s mental state. Researchers in various fields have searched for evidence of ToM in both human and non-human subjects; however, this approach is highly “mentalistic,” and rarely scrutinized in the relevant …
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The Science of Mind Reading: New Inverse Optimal Control Framework
Continuous control and planning by the brain remain poorly understood and is a major challenge in the field of Neuroscience. To truly say that we understand the underlying mechanisms we should first be able to explain the behavioral actions of the animals, so that we can relate the neural activity …
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Mind Reading: The Role of Quality and Duration of the Relationship in Predicting Novel Behavior of Another Person
The experimental investigation of mind reading has been ignored by the behavior analytic community, as it is seen as private and therefore unobservable. The present study argues that mind reading is an observable phenomenon that can be investigated in a controlled and objective manner if adequate …
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The Implications of Sexual Assault Awareness on Sexual Overperception Bias
… well as the complexity of interpreting cross-sex mind reading, further research is needed to determine how to minimize the risk of sexual misconduct.</p>
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Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants
… many extensions towards the ideal SCA, such as mind reading skills. The central idea is to endow agents with a sensor-updated "structured blackboard" representational structure called a Grounded Situation Model (GSM), which is closely related to the cognitive psychology notion of situation …
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Developing an interactive social-emotional toolkit for autism spectrum disorders
… control group following Golan and Baron-Cohen's Mind Reading DVD intervention approach (n=10). An age- and sex-matched group of neurotypical participants (n=20) were also tested with the pretest measures. Preliminary results show an increasing ability to use the iSET materials and to capture …
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Voice in Screenwriting: Discovering/Recovering an Australian Voice
… authorial presence of the screenwriter, whose mind shapes every aspect of the text. This presence is inscribed in the text through the many choices the screenwriter makes. More than this, the research argues that the choices made inflect the text with a cultural-national worldview. This occurs …
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Investigating How Reading Enhances Empathy: A Longitudinal, Diary Study of Everyday Reading Habits
… and one way to enhance empathy is through reading fiction. Though reading can enhance empathy, there is little understanding of the mechanisms by which it does so. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how time spent reading enhances empathy. I posit that two reading experience …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… consumers regularly buy tickets to watch mind readers and psychic mediums, tune in to the television and radio shows of such performers, dial psychic hotlines, and visit psychics, fortune-tellers, numerologists, astrologists, tarot card readers, and energy healers. Despite the popularity …
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Reaching for Fairies
<p><em>Reaching for Fairies</em> is a New Adult fiction novel about the slow process of healing from generational trauma in young adulthood. The story is told through a close-third person perspective focused on the inner thoughts of Cadence Marsh, an insightful and people-pleasing 20-year-old with …