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Spatial metaphors and the design of everyday things

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
People use space (e.g., left–right, up-down) to think about a variety of non-spatial concepts like time, number, similarity, and emotional valence. These spatial metaphors can be used to inform the design of user interfaces, which visualize many of these
Benjamin Pitt, Daniel Casasanto
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Pseudo‐Haptic Feedback: Multi‐Modal Approaches to Stiffness Perception and User Experience

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Can visual deformation substitute for physical haptic feedback? In immersive VR, deformation‐based pseudo‐haptics enables stiffness discrimination comparable to wearable force feedback, while their combination yields the highest performance and presence without increasing workload.
Mehmet Ege Cansev, Xiaodong Sun, Gionata Salvietti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Philipp Beckerle   +4 more
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On the Role of Preprocessing and Memristor Dynamics in Reservoir Computing for Image Classification

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reservoir computing (RC) is an emerging recurrent neural network architecture that has attracted growing attention for its low training cost and modest hardware requirements. Memristor‐based circuits are particularly promising for RC, as their intrinsic dynamics can reduce network size and parameter overhead in tasks such as time‐series ...
Rishona Daniels, Duna Wattad, Ronny Ronen, David Saad, Shahar Kvatinsky   +4 more
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Concepts We Transform by: Metaphorical Concepts in Post-COVID-19 Transition to Normalcy

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This article tackles key terminology of the post-COVID-19 transition to normalcy from a conceptual and metaphor analysis viewpoint. Scholarship has covered the pandemic’s linguistic ramifications, but the conceptual basis of its aftermath remains ...
Timo Pankakoski
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
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Can second language metaphorical competence be taught through instructional intervention? A meta-analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundFor a long time, the traditional view regarded metaphor as merely a rhetorical device that served to enrich linguistic expression. With the continuous development of cognitive linguistics, foreign language educators began to realize the vital ...
Xiaoyong Zhou, Muhammad Younas, Abdulfattah Omar, Lu Guan   +3 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert   +2 more
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The Models of Metaphorization in the Formation of Phraseological Units in Chinese: Language System vs Discourse

Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: история, филология
This article discusses the metaphorical concepts that underlie the formation of phraseological units of the Chinese language, their systematization and determination of their activity in the language system and cinematic discourse.
E. A. Krasikova
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Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionWith the frequent occurrences of telecom fraud crimes in China, it is very necessary and urgent to carry out effective anti-telefraud risk communication. In the present study, we investigated the role of metaphorical framing in shaping people’
Mengna Liu, Jinshi Chen
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NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda, Margary Martin, Misty Pacheco   +2 more
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