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Ostension and the nature of multimodal referential relations
Noureddine Elouazizi & Maite Taboada (SFU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 1. Background Using a multimodal corpus, constructed from TED videos, and adopting a corpus-based linguistic analysis, this paper examines the uses and referential properties of demonstrativesbased ostensions in multimodal contexts. The context of demonstratives-based ostension is a multimodal deictic context wherein the semantic meaning […]
Formalizing an interconnected syntax for Picasso’s creative process in producing Guernica
Steve DiPaola & Allison Smith (SFU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica and his creative process that gave fruition to it, has been the subject of major debate on how the creative mind works by many art historians (Arnhiem, Tankard) and more recently cognitive scientists (Simonton, Gabora). One reason Guernica has become the […]
Computationally modeling creativity: implementation and response to a computer being creative on its own
Steve DiPaola (SFU) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 Is it possible to make a computer program creative own its own. If you did, how would you evaluate the human response to its creative output? Through neuroimaging studies, theoretical and empirical work on the psychology of creativity, and simulation, we are gaining insight into the once […]
Multimodal Communication as a Dynamic Network
Rick Dale (UC, Merced) & Max M. Louwerse (U Memphis) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 During a bout of face-to-face interaction, such as sharing a joke, a whole suite of dynamic processes unfolds between people. For example, the speaker may gesture and smile while the listener nods in eager anticipation. At the punch line, the […]
Visualizing vocal iconicity: Empirical and graphical methods for investigating pitch contours
Nathaniel Clark & Marcus Perlman (UCSC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor. While iconicity is becoming more widely acknowledged as commonplace, even in spoken language (Perniss, et al., 2010), the empirical study of iconicity in speech is hampered by a reliance on comparing averages for acoustic variables across whole words or […]
Interactive Animated Visuals as Elastic Anchors for Imaginative Conceptual Blends
Kenny Chow (Hong Kong) & D. Fox Harrell (MIT) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 Introduction In today’s digital environments, we not only watch, but also interact with animated graphics in user interfaces, videogames, and computer-based artworks. The experience of interactive animated images relies on both sensory and motor apparatuses, constituting an embodied cognitive process. [1] […]
The tacit and the trace: Towards syntax of the creative act
Suk Kyoung Choi, Steve DiPaola, and Thecla Schiphorst (SFU) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 Tacit knowledge represents an embodied understanding of experience which shapes our form and action (Polanyi). For this study, the mimetic transformation of this ‘hidden’ knowledge is described as a process of active engagement in order to arrive at a conditional representation […]
The Poetics of Analogy at the Limits of Blending Theory
Mark J. Bruhn (Regis U) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 This paper explores the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley’s (1792-1822) analogical poetics at once anticipates and challenges contemporary cognitive-scientific models of conceptual structure. Section 1 outlines unresolved logical and motivational issues that limit the explanatory power of conceptual metaphor and blending theories with respect […]
“Space-Time Hallucinations:” A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Time in Comics
Mike Borkent (UBC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 The field of comics studies has abundantly illustrated the creativity facilitated by the medium. However, the crucial questions of how words and images seamlessly meld within and between panels—what McCloud (1993) influentially called “closure”— remain under-theorized and problematic (Cohn 2010). A discussion of the construction of time […]
Situated and social: A (re)consideration of terminology for actors
Rhonda Blair (Southern Methodist) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 This paper considers possible applications of research in select areas of cognitive science to acting and actor training. Cognitive science research, particularly in areas such as situated cognition and social neuroscience, is increasingly complicating our sense of what it means to be a “self” or an […]