scholarly journals Communication Mediated by a Powered Wheelchair: People with Profound Cognitive Disabilities

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cognitive Disabilities ◽  
Typical Development ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Powered Wheelchair ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
Self Recognition

Keywords guidance, interaction, feeling experiences, self-recognition, concept formation, orientation, intentionality, agency, communicative behavior Abstract The Driving to Learn project explored what people with profound cognitive disabilities could achieve from practice in a joystick-operated powered wheelchair and what facilitated their eventual achievements. Grounded theory methodology was applied for a project involving 45 children and adults with profound cognitive disabilities, 64 with milder degrees of cognitive disabilities, and 17 infants with typical development. The findings included two lines of development: (1) growing consciousness of joystick-use and powered mobility use, and (2) learning communication by driving. An emerging approach for facilitating tool use learning also nurtured the participants' alertness, attention to social exchange, development of sense of self, anticipation, intentionality and a will in mind that was communicated through showing by driving. Significance: Becoming capable of showing communicative intentions, even in a limited sense, changed the attention, interaction and responsiveness of social others. This in turn increased the participants' opportunities for development of more shared meanings and communication.

The stand-up comedian as an egocentric communicator

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ibukun Filani
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
General Perspective

Abstract The general perspective in pragmatics research on stand-up comedy is that the comedian co-produces humor with the audience. In this paper, I argue that the stand-up comedian’s communicative behavior is also partly rooted in egocentrism. To achieve this, I adopted a sociocognitive approach to intention and egocentrism in analyzing a routine that was performed in Chicago by Okey Bakassi, a Nigerian stand-up comedian. I operationalize egocentrism as one of the humor strategies of the comedian. While focusing on the propositional content of the comedian’s utterances, the analysis revealed strategies like privatization, ad hoc concept formation and ad hoc coherence, which the comedian used in individualizing the prior common ground to generate the needed incongruity for humor in the performance sphere.

scholarly journals Social exchange approach in knowledge sharing of online communities – A Case of online health communities at Ho Chi Minh City

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (Q4) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Phong Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Tuan Manh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Online Health Communities ◽  
Online Health Community ◽  
Writing Group ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Face Concern ◽  
Health Communities

The demand to look for information and share information in nowaday society are a huge needed, especially in the internet revolution are developing more and more. The studies proposed the model that includes the benefit factors (sense of self-worth, face concern, reputation and social support) and cost factors (executional costs, cognitive costs) with the points of view of Social Exchange Theory that influences to knowledge donating behavior, knowledge collecting behavior and community promotion among members. The studies will be verified in health care member of the online health communities in Ho Chi Minh City. Quantitative research also was conducted 336 samples were used to evaluate and test the research. The results of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) show that the theoretical models are suited the market data and hypotheses of the research model are supported. In particular, factors of the benifit group (sense of self-worth, face concern, reputation and social support) have a positive impact on the knowledge donating behavior and knowledge collecting behavior. In addition, factors of the cost group (executional costs, cognitive costs) have a negative impact the knowledge donating behavior and knowledge collecting behavior. Knowledge donating behavior and knowledge collecting behavior have a positive impact on community promotion to the online health community. In addition, the results of multi-group analysis that there is no difference between knowledge sharing’s writing group and no knowledge sharing’s writing group. The results may be usefull for online health community, hospitals, doctors, individuals and businesses.

Altered Auditory Self-recognition in People with Schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaochao C. Pan ◽  
Aibao B. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Stimulation Of

Abstract Self-recognition is of great significance to our sense of self. To date, disturbances in the processing of visual self-recognition are well studied in people with schizophrenia, whereas relatively few studies have focused on the processing of self in other domains, such as auditory. An investigation of auditory self-recognition contributes to delineate changes related to self and the potential roots of the described psychopathological aspects connoting schizophrenia. By applying unimodal task and multisensory test, this study investigated auditory self-recognition in people with schizophrenia under unimodal and bimodal circumstances. Forty-six adults diagnosed with schizophrenia and thirty-two healthy controls were involved in this study. Results suggested that people with schizophrenia seemed to have significantly lower perceptual sensitivity in detecting self-voice, and also showed stricter judgment criteria in self-voice decision. Furthermore, in the presentation of stimuli that combined the stimulation of others’ faces with one’s own voice, people with schizophrenia mistakenly attributed the voices of others as their own. In conclusion, altered auditory self-recognition in people with schizophrenia was found.

Berlin, 1921–22

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Ann Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Literary Experience

This chapter narrates Natalia Ilyinichna Tcherniak's studies in Berlin, where she improved her command of German. It talks about Natalia's studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University for the academic year 1921–22 in which she cryptically commented that it was a “period of emotional disarray.” It also describes the unpleasant emotional tenor of Berlin in Nathalia's memory, reminding her of painful separation and abandonment by her mother in 1909. The chapter recounts Natalia's discovery of Thomas Mann's 1905 novella “Tonio Kröger” as the literary experience that marked her stay in Berlin and gave her a first intimation of the possibility that she might herself write. It analyzes Natalia's sense of self-recognition in Thomas Mann's novella as the revelation of a kindred sensibility.

scholarly journals Self-agency in rhesus monkeys

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin J. Couchman
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Macaca Mulatta ◽  
Rhesus Monkeys ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
The Relationship

Rhesus monkeys ( Macaca mulatta ) have shown the ability to monitor their own mental states, but fail the mirror self-recognition test. In humans, the sense of self-agency is closely related to self-awareness, and results from monitoring the relationship between intentional, sensorimotor and perceptual information. Humans and rhesus monkeys were trained to move a computer icon with a joystick while a distractor icon partially matched their movements. Both humans and monkeys were able to monitor and identify the icon they were controlling, suggesting they have some understanding of self-agency.

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