linguistics and language

Factors affecting observers' accuracy when assessing credibility. The effect of the interaction between media, senders' Ccompetence and veracity

The present experiment examined how the interaction between senders' communicative competence, veracity and the medium through which judgments were made affected observers' accuracy. Stimuli were obtained from a previous study. Observers (N = 220) judged the truthfulness of statements provided by a good truth teller, a good liar, a bad truth teller, and a bad liar presented either via an audio-only, video-only, audio-video, or transcript format.

La narración de experiencias en TripAdvisor

En este artículo analizamos, desde el planteamiento de la pragmática del turismo digital, las opiniones que aparecen en la página web Trip Advisor como una muestra de la promoción turística online en la Web 2.0 o Turismo 2.0. Partiendo de la consideración de dichas opiniones o comentarios como narraciones de experiencias de viajes, hemos intentando caracterizarlas con el objetivo de mostrar su especifi cidad y sus coincidencias con otros tipos de narraciones.

Sparing and impairing. Emotion modulation of the attentional blink and the spread of sparing in a 3-target RSVP task

The performance impairment (attentional blink, AB) on a second target (T2) when it is presented within 200-500 ms after a first target (T1) during rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) is typically attributed to resource depletion. The AB does not occur when targets appear in immediate sequence (sparing). Recently, this account has been challenged by findings that the lag 1 sparing can spread to later lags when using a 3-target RSVP.

Come lo strumento diventa me

«Embodiment» is a term that highlights how our sense of the body is plastic and can be extended beyond the biological self to incorporate a salient tool. Theoretical bases are grounded in the widely discussed concepts of embodiment, tool use, and body representation. To support these claims, we will first explore highlight a pathway in the confusing scenario of the consequences of dynamic bodily representations. The primary interest is to explore the potentialities of embodiment, and to assess human experiences that can be directly measured concerning partial or complete bodily illusions.

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