HOW AND WHY BRAINS CREATE MEANING FROM SENSORY INFORMATION

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 515-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
WALTER J. FREEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Sample Information ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Construct Meaning

Semantics is the essence of human communication. It concerns the manufacture and use of symbols as representations to exchange meanings. Information technology is faced with the problem of using intelligent machines as intermediaries for interpersonal communication. The problem of designing such semantic machines has been intractable because brains and machines work on very different principles. Machines process information that is fed to them. Brains construct hypotheses and test them by acting and sensing. Brains do not process information because the intake through the senses is infinite. Brains sample information, hold it briefly, construct meaning, and then discard the information. A solution to the problem of communication with machines is to simulate how brains create meaning and express it as information by making a symbol to represent the meaning to another brain in pairwise communication. An understanding of the neurodynamics by which brains create meaning and represent it may enable engineers to build devices with which they can communicate pairwise, as they do now with colleagues.

Converging cultures of communication: A comparative study of Internet use in China, Europe, and the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1751-1772
Author(s):  
Jacob Ørmen ◽  
Rasmus Helles ◽  
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Media Systems

Global Internet use is circumscribed by local political and economic institutions and inscribed in distinctive cultural practices. This article presents a comparative study of Internet use in China, the United States, and five European countries. The empirical findings suggest a convergence of cultures, specifically regarding interpersonal communication, alongside characteristic national and sociodemographic configurations of different prototypes of human communication. Drawing on the classic understanding of communication as a cultural process producing, maintaining, repairing, and transforming a shared reality, we interpret such configurations as cultures of communication, which can be seen to differ, overlap, and converge across regions in distinctive ways. Looking beyond traditional media systems, we call for further cross-cultural research on the Internet as a generic communication system joining global and local forms of interaction.

Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-152
Author(s):  
Janie Harden Fritz
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Message Design Logic ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relational Contexts

Honesty is a central concept in interpersonal communication ethics, typically studied through the lens of self-disclosure in close relationships. Expanding the self-disclosure construct to encompass multiple types of messages occurring in public and private relationships offers additional insights. Across relational contexts, at least two aspects of human communication are relevant to honesty: the content dimension, which references factual information carried by a message; and the relationship dimension, which provides the implied stance or attitude toward the other and/or the relationship. This dimension provides interpretive nuance for the content dimension, its implications for honesty shaped by culture and context. This chapter considers five themes relevant to communication research—self-disclosure and restraint, Grice’s theory of conversational implicature, message design logic, communication competence, and civility, authority, and love—and explore the implications of each content area for honesty in human relationships.

Input-driven behavior: One extreme of the multisensory perceptual continuum

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-233
Author(s):  
Kelvin S. Oie ◽  
John J. Jeka
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Information ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Perceptual Continuum ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Special Case

The propositions that the senses are separate and that the global array may be sufficient for adequate perception are questioned. There is evidence that certain tasks may be primarily “input-driven,” but these are a special case along the behavioral continuum. Many tasks involve sensory information that is ambiguous, and other sources of information may be required for adequate perception.

scholarly journals Social transformations of speech culture in information age

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 03081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Gudmanian ◽  
Liubov Drotianko ◽  
Sergiy Sydorenko ◽  
Oksana Zhuravliova ◽  
Sergiy Yahodzinskyi
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Communication

The paper looks at the major technological, sociocultural and linguistic factors that are changing the nature of interpersonal communication in the Information Age, and some manifestations of these changes. Rapid progress of technology, above all, the advent of the Internet, brought about dramatic changes in the modes and parameters of human communication over the recent decades. New types of written communication arose and have firmly established themselves on the global scale – in social networks, chats, blogs, forums and various Internet communities. Having created unprecedented possibilities for connecting with people irrespective of their location, age or social status, innovative technology is at the same time challenging standards of communication ethics and speech culture. Sociocultural transformations in the modern society, democratization of social relations contribute to weakening of speech norms and deterioration of overall speech culture, especially among young people. The increasing role of English as a language of global communication and its reputation of the dominant language of new technology and virtual reality are inevitably influencing speech habits of the Internet users across the globe. The combined work of all these factors results in visible deterioration of speech culture, standardization and simplification of speech, elimination of cultural specificity, tendency to replace expressive language means with emoji, downgrading of style, defying norms of spelling, word use and grammar. Obvious irreversibility of technological progress and the growing share of life people spend online call on specialists from various related fields to continue comprehensive analysis of transformations of speech culture in the modern world with the aim to assess societal risks and work out timely and adequate countermeasures.

Studies of Crossmodal Functions with TMS

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotfi Merabet ◽  
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Keyword(s):  
Multisensory Processing ◽  
Sensory Deprivation ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Neural Substrates ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Crossmodal Interactions ◽  
Sensory Changes ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Brain

In the brain, information from all the senses interacts and is integrated in order to create a unified sensory percept. Some percepts appear unimodal, and some, cross modal. Unimodal percepts can be modified by crossmodal interactions given that our brains process multiple streams of sensory information in parallel and promote extensive interactions. TMS can provide valuable insights on the neural substrates associated with multisensory processing in humans. TMS is commonly described as a ‘relatively painless’ method of stimulating the brain noninvasively. However, TMS itself is strong multisensory and this should be considered while interpreting the results. With regard to the crossmodal sensory changes that follow sensory deprivation, these changes can be revealed using a variety of methods including the combination of TMS with neuroimaging.

scholarly journals Student's Perception of Online Learning Due to Covid 19 (Case Study at UNITOMO Vocational School Surabaya)

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1023-1034
Author(s):  
Sumartono Sumartono ◽  
Nuril Huda ◽  
Wildan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Model Project ◽  
E Learning

The rapid development of information technology can answer problems that arise after the Covid-19 pandemic, especially problems in the learning process. Information technology that plays a role in the world of education which is currently booming is online learning. Online learning is different from ordinary learning, online learning places more emphasis on student's ability to receive and process information. Online learning serves as a liaison between teachers and students through the internet network that can be accessed anytime and anywhere. There are various online media used in the learning process including; WhatsApp, Google Meet, Zoom, Classroom, and even e-learning. But among these media, the easiest to use is WhatsApp, which is easily accessible at every level of education. Online learning is now an effective medium for the learning process at all levels. For an effective and optimal online learning process, there are several learning models offered by experts during the Covid-19 pandemic, including; Online Model, Offline Model, Online e-learning Model, Project-Based Learning, and Blended Learning.

scholarly journals Process information technology:

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard T Moncarz ◽  
Craig Schlenoff ◽  
Michael Gruninger ◽  
Michael Duffey ◽  
Amy Knutilla
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Process Information

scholarly journals ebanking in India

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yogesh Prasad Kolekar
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Electronic Banking ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All

Today we live in a technology driven world. Industrial revolution gave birth to giant machines for industrial advancement and information technology has delivered intelligent machines to revolutionize human development. Today we are surrounded by automated smart technology, which has touched almost all spheres of human life, from military to medicine and from education to the election. Electronic banking or e-banking is the fusion of information technology with the banking system. Thus the term electronic banking generically refers to various terms connected with virtual banking and often interchangeably used with the term internet banking. The Rangarajan Committees drew a phased plan for bank computerization in the 1980’s which recommended computerization of banks at various levels. The systematic use of Core Banking Solution (CBS) was another milestone development in the history of ebanking in India.

scholarly journals ACCELERATION TECHNOLOGY ON BOOKS AS CULTURAL MEDIA ON HUMAN COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION

2016 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Asthararianty Asthararianty
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Cultural Media

Dromology is a speed that characterize progress. One of the affected is the culture of reading books. In the past people reading a book in the conventional manner, but in recent years, Internet technology has brought man reading a book in a different way, namely through the e-book. These changes ultimately led to a cultural shift in communication, especially in reading the book. The method used in this research is the study of literature. Results from the study showed that the reading culture (human interactions in a conventional book) has been turned into a reading culture that is synonymous with technology and also acceleration. Characteristics, sensations and experiences have changed. Technology (e-book) has become the new devices in cultured (communication / human interaction). Keywords: book, dromology, interpersonal communication, new culture

scholarly journals Should We Fear Ourselves? A Discussion about the Future of Our Species: Will Science and Technology Redeem Our Specie in the Future? Or Will Science and Technology Be the Source of Our Collective Downfall?

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Martha Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Even Start ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
The Future ◽  
One Step ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Looking Back

When looking back into our history, science and technology have been the tools used by our species to fight its survival battle against its old enemies (diseases, famine, epidemics, etc.). But, ever since human discovered genetics and NBIC technologies (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science), our ambitions went one step further. We do not longer limit ourselves to ‘fix’ the Homo sapiens. Now we dream of enhancing the Homo sapiens and bring it into the next level: the Homo Deus. The consequences of our desires remain uncertain; but whatever they are, we need to accept that in a not too distant future the notions and understandings about ‘being human’ will appear less straight forward and even start to fade away. This paper discusses the senses in which science and technology have made humanity more distinctive as a species. As constructors of our own future, we need to question: will science and technology redeem humanity in the future? Or will they be the source of our collective downfall?

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