Language, Vision, and Music: Selected Papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999
Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the...
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Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of such entities as cerebral columnar automata? Answers are to be found in this international collection of work which recognises that one of the basic features of consciousness is its MultiModality, that there are possibilities to model this with contemporary technology, and that cross-cultural commonalities in the experience of, and creativity within, the various modalities are significant. With the advent of Intelligent MultiMedia this aspect of consciousness implementation in mind/brain acquires new significance. (Series B)
DedicationAbout the EditorsIntroduction1Multimedia integration: A system-theoretic perspective15Visualising lexical prosodic representations for speech applications29A simulated language understanding agent using virtual perception39The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy55Affective multimodal interaction with a 3D agent67CHAMELEON: A general platform for performing intellimedia79Machine perception of real-time multimodal natural dialogue97Communicative rhythm in gesture and speech117Signals and meanings of gaze in animated faces133Speech, vision and aphasic communication145Synaesthesia and knowing157What synaesthesia is (and is not)171Synaesthesia is not a psychic anomaly, but a form of non-verbal thinking181Music and language: Metaphor and causation191Expression, content and meaning in language and music: An integrated semiotic analysis205Auditory structuring in explaining dyslexia221A comparative review of priming effects in language and music231The respective roles of conscious- and subconscious processes for interpreting language and music241Aesthetic forms of expression as information delivery units255The lexicon of the Conductor's face271How do interactive virtual operas shift relationships between music, text and image?285"Let's Improvise Together" a testbed for a formalism in language vision and sounds integration295On tonality in Irish traditional music303The relationship between the imitation and recognition of non-verbal rhythms and language comprehension313Rising-falling contours in speech: A metaphor of tension-resolution schemes in European musical traditions? Evidence from regional varieties of Italian325Plenary panel session: What is creativity?The analogical foundations of creativity in language, culture & the arts: The Upper Paleolithic to 2100CE347Creativity in humans, computers, and the rest of God's creatures: A meditation from within the economic world373The origins of Mexican metaphor in Tarahumara Indian religion385Is creativity algorithmic?401Subject Index411Name Index427
