A5020306757- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Media Influence and Health
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Global Security and Public Health
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Digital Communication and Language
- Artificial Intelligence in Games
- Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Literature: history, themes, analysis
University of California, Los Angeles
2001-2024
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
2018
UCLA Health
2017
University of California System
2013
University of California, Santa Barbara
1998
In this paper we introduce the novel problem of understanding visual persuasion. Modern mass media make extensive use images to persuade people commercial and political decisions. These effects techniques are widely studied in social sciences, but behavioral studies do not scale massive datasets. Computer vision has made great strides building syntactical representations images, such as detection identification objects. However, pervasive for communicative purposes been largely ignored. We...
Abstract The portrayal of the actions fictive characters for purposes entertainment is a familiar phenomenon. Theories that seek to explain why we are attracted such fictions and whether learn from them have produced no consensus adequate overall account. In this paper, present hypothesis relies on cognitive adaptations pretend play. As simplified model system, draw our field study children's chase play, which characterized by an elementary form pretense. children pretend, at first without...
The human face is a primary medium of communication and prominent source information used to infer various attributes. In this paper, we study fully automated system that can the perceived traits person from his -- social dimensions, such as "intelligence," "honesty," "competence" how those be predict outcomes real-world events involve long-term commitments, political elections, job hires, marriage engagements. To end, propose hierarchical model for enduring inferred faces, incorporating...
Literary studies and the cognitive sciences, pursuing common interests in language, mental acts, linguistic artifacts, have developed markedly different approaches to similar phenomena of reading, imaginative involvement, textual patterning. Until quite recently, distance between them has drawn more attention than their possible convergence (Franchi Guzeldere ). A number literary theorists critics, however, steadily been producing work that finds its inspiration, methodology, guiding...
This article explores the extension of cognitive linguistics, especially construction grammar, to multimodal communication. Its dataset is a vast repository hundreds thousands hours network news broadcasts, including not only language but also co-speech gesture, diagrams, and other aspects audiovisual
Abstract Research into the multimodal dimensions of human communication faces a set distinctive methodological challenges. Collecting datasets is resource-intensive, analysis often lacks peer validation, and absence shared makes it difficult to develop standards. External validity hampered by small datasets, yet large are intractable. Red Hen Lab spearheads an international infrastructure for data-driven research, facilitating integrated cross-disciplinary workflow. Linguists, scholars,...
When teachers, researchers, and students describe productively responding to moments of failure in the learning process, what might this mean? Blending prior theoretical empirical research on relationship between learning, results from four data sets that are part a larger design-based project, we investigate heterogeneous processes teachers value pursue following which computer bugs thwart their immediate progress an activity. These include: (1) resolving failure; (2) avoiding recurring...
Why do human beings show such a strong preference for thinking in narratives? From computational perspective, this method of generating inferences appears to be exorbitantly wasteful. Using students' responses the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, I argue that narrative comprehension requires construction idiosyncratic imagery, but cognitive yield is structural and shared. This peculiar information processing, suggest, outcome evolutionary path-dependence. The mode construal an expert...
Gesture is recognized as part of and integral to cognition. The value gesture for learning contingent on how it gathers meaning against the ground other relevant resources in setting—in short, body laminated onto surrounding environment. With a focus lamination, this paper formulates an integrated theory viewpoint spatial reasoning; develops embodied approach documenting understanding live construction students’ models; offers new implications teaching spatially complex concepts. We start...
Human communication is multimodal and includes elements such as gesture facial expression along with spoken language. Modern technology makes it feasible to capture all aspects of in natural settings. As a result, similar fields genetics, astronomy neuroscience, scholars areas linguistics studies are on the verge data-driven revolution their fields. These new approaches require analytical support from machine learning artificial intelligence develop tools help process vast data repositories....
Given her influential and decidedly liberal feminist social agenda, Aphra Behn's political convictions during the struggles of 1680s between Parliament Charles II have struck several critics as incongruously reactionary. This essay proposes a partial resolution to this apparent contradiction by examining how Behn employs psychology transgressive love model relation king his subjects. By drawing selectively from different sets inferences present in conceptual spaces passionate autocratic...
(1998). “The Time of Unrememberable Being”: Wordsworth's Autobiography the Imagination. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 13, & Neuroscience, pp. 7-38.
This work aims to compare the occurrence of negative emotion words in Brazilian broadcast news JN and JR, also analyzes Twitter posts related them. We use Portuguese version LIWC dictionary, which is a Sentiment Analysis software. The results indicate that both JR tend words, but this tendency greater. Nevertheless, direct more criticisms towards than JR.