scholarly journals Geo-environmental Factors in Three Persian Folk Stories: A Preliminary Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Shafiei ◽  
Habibollah Ghassemzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Climatic Zones ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
Folk Stories

Stories mirror the essential function of human cognitive activity. In the present preliminary study, we hypothesized that the mental spaces that make up the stories can be influenced by the environmental conditions of their creators. For this purpose, three stories from three different climatic zones in Iran were selected and a content analysis method was used to analyze their components. Results showed significant differences between the mental spaces of different geographic regions in these three stories.  This finding could be considered as a step taken to show the extent to which an individual’s cognition and cognitive processing in general and the creation of meaning in particular, is an extension and representation of embodied experience. We have discussed the subject in the framework of narrative analysis as well as cognitive semantics.

Cognitive Suppression During Saccadic Eye Movements

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Irwin ◽  
Laura A. Carlson-Radvansky
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Saccadic Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Input ◽  
Time Difference ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Saccade Control

Saccadic eye movements are made at least 100,000 times each day It is well known that sensitivity to visual input is suppressed during saccades, we examined whether cognitive activity (specifically, mental rotation) is suppressed as well If cognitive processing occurs during saccades, a prime viewed in one fixation should exert a larger influence on a target viewed in a second fixation when a long rather than a short saccade separates their viewing No such effect was found, even though the time difference between long and short saccades was effective in a no-saccade control These results indicate that at least some cognitive operations are suppressed during saccades

scholarly journals User Experience Evaluation of Voice Interfaces: A Preliminary Study of Games for Seniors and the Elderly

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Solano ◽  
López ◽  
Guerrero ◽  
Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Positive Results

Maintaining high cognitive activity is vital for the mental health of seniors. Taking part in leisure activities is an exciting and gratifying way to accomplish this, with video games having several advantages for this use. The present study is a work in progress to develop different digital games with natural voice interfaces that can be easily and pleasantly used by older adults to stimulate their cognitive needs. A Wizard of Oz with two different games was developed to evaluate the user experience perceived when using such applications. Positive results enhance the notion that using digital games powered by natural voice interfaces may appeal to the elderly, while stimulating their cognitive processes, thus fortifying their mental health.

Applied ethnopoetics

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Blommaert
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Potential Usefulness ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Folk Stories

Ethnopoetics is a form of narrative analysis designed, initially, for the analysis of folk stories and based on an ethnographic performance-based understanding of narrative emphasizing that meaning is an effect of performance. It offers opportunities for analyzing ‘voice’. The ways in which speakers themselves organize stories along indexical patterns of emphasis, focus, super- and subordination and so on. As such, it is a potentially very useful tool for tracking ‘local’ patterns of meaning-making in narrative. I argue that ethnopoetics could be productively applied to data in which different systems of meaning-making meet — a condition that defines many important service-providing systems in globalizing contexts. Asylum applications in Western Europe are a case in point, and examples will be used from that domain, but the potential usefulness of such an applied ethnopoetics stretches into many other types of service encounters in which crosscultural storytelling is crucial.

scholarly journals RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CONTEXT OF COPING WITH OCCUPATIONAL STRESS EXPERIENCED BY SPECIALISTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE PROFESSIONS IN SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Daiva Alifanovienė ◽  
Odeta Šapelytė ◽  
Darius Gerulaitis
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Diverse Environment ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Activity Behaviour

<p>The article deals with the reconstruction of the context of coping with occupational stress experienced by social welfare specialists in different socio-cultural environments. It is aimed to reveal the contexts of the possibilities to cope with stress and of consequences of stress experienced by specialists of social welfare professions of Lithuania and <em>Great Britain</em> (N=10). The professionals’ experience was analysed using a qualitative data collection method (semi-structured <em>interview</em>), employing open-ended questions by the assessment areas foreseen by the researchers and formulated upon the analysis of scientific literature and the authors’ research, disclosing the peculiarities of experienced occupational stress and possibilities of coping with it. The research data were analysed employing the content analysis method, using the open coding procedure; validation of the research data was performed using an expert method. Reconstruction of the multilayered context of socio-cultural diversity of social welfare specialists of Lithuanian and Great Britain highlighted ambiguous semantics of stress coping possibilities: the success of coping with occupational stress possibly depends on the interaction between the variables of a personality (intrapersonal) and social environment (interpersonal). Stressful situations affect both personally and professionally, causing changes in specialists’ emotions, cognitive activity, behaviour, aggravating relationships with colleagues and reducing work efficiency.</p>

scholarly journals الحوار بين الإخوة في القرآن الكريم وأثره في بناء القيم

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abedalqader Hasan Qatanany
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Family Counselling ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Interactive Models

The Quran attaches great importance to establishing the premise of dialogue in order to build human relations that are appropriate and natural. The Quran is filled with interactive models across diverse areas and confirms the need for dialogue within the domain of the same household. Through content analysis method, this preliminary study identifies many religious, human and social values by way of interaction within families which the Quran presents us the model to learn from and extract lessons, teachings and counsel. It also aims to illustrate the role of family in representing and implementing Quranic values and the extent to which the role can be instilled and developed among individuals. It then proceeds to the discussion on the capacity of instilling values in strengthening family counselling and educational mediation. Accordingly, there are some universal values that create faithful families and generation with regards to conviction and engagement of family interaction. Despite the varied understanding over values, the paper concludes by saying that all these Quranic values will enable us to navigate through life with guidance and insight while achieving universal peace and positive coexistence on one hand and being firm on values and morals on the other.

Association and cognitive processing

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-73
Author(s):  
Hans-Jörg Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Associative Model ◽  
Activation Patterns ◽  
Associative Network ◽  
Cognitive Activities

The chapter discusses the cognitive activities which are performed in usage events and entrenched, if repeated. The key cognitive activity is association in the associative network, with four types of associations (symbolic, paradigmatic, syntagmatic, paradigmatic) being activated in predictive and probabilistic lexical and syntactic processing. Processing and representation take place in the form of entrenched patterns of associations. Language processing is explained in terms of the activation of associations. This activation is probabilistic and follows the principle of predictive coding. Lexical-semantic processing is understood in terms of dynamic and transient multidimensional activation patterns in the associative network targeting attractors in the network. A highly dynamic and flexible associative model of syntactic processing is proposed. It is first developed with reference to two examples and then described in general form. The model is very important for the understanding of entrenchment to be discussed in Part III.

Translation/Interpreting psychological mechanism as embodied bilingual processing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Bilingual Processing ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Processing Mechanism

Abstract Based on the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on bilingualism, this paper firstly discusses three fundamental models and relevant central issues involved in the bilingual processing of interpreting: the selective and non-selective feature of bilingual access and control, the serial and parallel view of bilingual processing, and the coordination view of serial and parallel procedure of bilingual information processing, with the dual purpose of explicating the bilingual processing and cognitive control mechanism in the interpreting process and paving the way for further explanation of the embodied nature of bilingual processing in interpreting from the embodied cognition perspective. Then with the two aspects of processing mechanism and neurolinguistic evidence, it elaborates how the interpreter’s embodied experience and skills in the profession, as a part of cognitive resources, play crucial roles in different levels of cognitive processing which coordinates the serial and parallel processing in the interpreting process. Lastly, this paper argues for viewing the translating process likewise as embodied bilingual processing using a brief comparison between translating and interpreting with a focus on the embodied nature of bilingual processing in their respective processes.

Emotional States, Attentional Resources, and Cognitive Activity: A Preliminary Study

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 851-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Versace ◽  
Jean-Marc Monteil ◽  
Louis Mailhot
Keyword(s):  
Recall Test ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Attentional Resources ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
Preliminary Study

This study explored the link between emotional state and attentional resources. A neutral or negative emotional state was induced in 50 subjects, then they performed a path-learning task followed by a word-memorization task while reproducing the prelearned path. Memory performance was assessed on a free-recall test. Analysis indicated that a previous induction of a negative emotional state disrupted path learning. Recall was not significantly affected by the subjects' emotional states, but recall was higher for subjects who had automatized the path prior to memorizing the words.

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