Abstract The current study evaluated the effects of training on the haptic classification of culturally universal facial expressions of emotion as depicted in simple 2D raised-line drawings. Blindfolded sighted (N = 60) and blind (N = 4) participants participated in Experiments 1 and 3, respectively. A small vision control study (N = 12) was also conducted (Experiment 2) to compare haptic versus visual learning patterns. A hybrid learning paradigm consisting of pre/post- and old/new-training procedures was used to address the nature of the underlying learning process in terms of token-specific learning and/or generalization. During the Pre-Training phase, participants were tested on their ability to classify facial expressions of emotion using the set with which they would be subsequently trained. During the Post-Training phase, they were tested with the training set (Old) intermixed with a completely novel set (New). For sighted observers, visual classification was more accurate than haptic classification; in addition, two of the three adventitiously blind individuals tended to be at least as accurate as the sighted haptic group. All three groups showed similar learning patterns across the learning stages of the experiment: accuracy improved substantially with training; however, while classification accuracy for the Old set remained high during the Post-Training test stage, learning effects for novel (New) drawings were reduced, if present at all. These results imply that learning by the sighted was largely token-specific for both haptic and visual classification. Additional results from a limited number of blind subjects tentatively suggest that the accuracy with which facial expressions of emotion are classified is not impaired when visual loss occurs later in life. / Thesis (Master, Neuroscience Studies) -- Queen's University, 2009-10-23 12:04:41.133

Dailės terapijos mokslinės literatūros analizė parodė, jog sutrikusį intelektą turintys vaikai piešia nekreipdami dėmesio į realų objekto vaizdą, nepastebi esminių detalių, nesuvokia objektų tarpusavio ryšių. Tokių vaikų piešiniams būdingi šablonai, apimantys tiek besikartojančią temą, tiek pasikartojančius tuos pačius objektus. Piešinių stereotipiškumas atspindi vaikų reakciją į supantį pasaulį, kur dėmesys fiksuojamas ties aktualiu, keliančiu rūpestį išgyvenimu. Dažniausiai piešiami objektai – namas, medis, žmogus. / The analysis of the art therapy’s scientific sources has revealed that the children having mental disorder draw without focusing on a real image of the object, they don’t pay attention to essential details, don’t realize the existence of the relationship between the objects. The drawings of these kids have got typical patterns with a recurring theme and repeated objects in their pictures. The stereotypical drawings reflect the kids’ reaction to the surrounding. Their attention concentrates on the urgent emotionally stressful experience. The most common objects in such pictures are houses, trees and people.

Interdisciplinary Project Work (PW) was introduced as an educational initiative in Singapore schools from primary to pre-university levels in 2000. PW was posited to (a) enhance perceptions and use of inter-subject connections in real-world problems, (b) promote knowledge application, and (c) provide a platform for the use of thinking skills. The main goal of this thesis is to explore how these objectives are inter-related with factors influencing the quality of group collaborative mathematical thinking processes and mathematical outcomes during a mathematically-based interdisciplinary project. In this study, high quality mathematical thinking processes occur when the flow of group interactions is purposefully directed towards the enhancement of mathematically accurate, logical, and reasonable outcomes. / A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Design consisting of consecutive quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis procedures was used to answer the seven research questions in the study. A researcher-designed mathematically-based interdisciplinary project was implemented over 14-15 weeks with 16 classes of students (aged 13-14) belonging to two educational streams (higher and average-ability) in three Singapore government secondary schools. No teaching intervention was administered. Six scales were developed for pre- and post-project measurements of students’ mathematical confidence, perception of the value of mathematics, and perception of the interconnectedness of mathematics (N = 398). Ten student-group cases (n = 38) were selected for further in-depth qualitative data collection procedures pertaining to the nature of mathematical knowledge application, use of metacognitive monitoring and regulatory strategies, and core thinking skills application during three tasks in the interdisciplinary project. / The findings of this study clearly demonstrate the complexities of using PW to promote holistic and connected use of knowledge. Five substantial contributions to research on interdisciplinary learning arise from the thesis:1. An empirical framework synthesising factors influencing the quality of group collaborative mathematical knowledge application processes and outcomes was developed.2. The social influence of the group member activating applications of core thinking skills and metacognitive monitoring and regulatory strategies is a mediating factor influencing the flow of cognitive-metacognitive group interactions, and therefore, the quality of collaborative mathematical knowledge application processes and outcomes.3. Leaders of high-stream groups who were socially non-dominant but mathematically active were more likely to apply a higher frequency of core thinking skills than group members in other roles (i.e., questioner, recorder, and encourager) during a mathematically-based interdisciplinary project.4. The types and complexities of mathematical knowledge and skills applied during a mathematically-based interdisciplinary project did not correspond with stream.5. Whilst students were more able to appreciate the use of mathematics for inter-subject learning after participating in a mathematically-based interdisciplinary project, their beliefs about inter-subject connections and efforts at making these connections only marginally changed.These outcomes enhance our understanding of the challenges involved in the successful use of interdisciplinary tasks with middle school students and provide focuses for future teacher facilitation of mathematical learning during interdisciplinary education.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-144). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Neil C. Rowe, Gurminder Singh. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-65). Also available online.

Couple therapy, influenced by the discourse of social constructionism in its theorethical multiplicity, emphasizes the use of language as the builder of reality. However, it typically restricts its interest to the resources of verbal language, devoting little attention to other linguistic forms. Considering the possibility of contributing to this knowledge, we propose the inclusion of drawings as a language resource for therapeutic practices, increasing the understanding of the use of the language in a responsive-relational joint action for construction of meanings. Thus, this study aims at understanding the relational processes of meaning co-construction through the creation of drawings, in the context of Couple Therapy, seeking, in a special way, to analyze the implications of the use of drawings in the construction of change narratives of oneself and the marriage relationship. The study was carried out by way of video recordings of the therapy sessions of three couples, in 10 weekly sessions in a social clinic context. The analysis of the data, based on the constructionist version of social poetics, included transcripts of all sessions, followed by readings that allowed for the identification of different uses of the drawings. From the analysis of the drawings produced by the three couples, we identified drawing as a creative resource to: (a) facilitate conversation hampered by tension, (b) signal focus and selection of oscillatory conversation, (c) explore what has not yet been said in conversation, (d) strengthen the descriptions and narratives created in conversation and (e) summarize the assessment process. The detailed analysis of the therapeutic process of one of the couples, which presented a greater variation of elements referring to individual and marital aspects, showed that the practice of drawing in marital therapy creates participatory contexts in which spouses could feel safe to engage in the creative process, with inventive possibilities of one coming to be desirable and satisfying. In this way, the drawings became a propitiatory resource in bringing life to the use of the word, as well as promoting other forms of speech, freed from the captivity of the usual modes, normalized within human relationships. In couple therapy, drawings are possible as a new part of our language which incorporated with the usual and within the same, allows for the learning of new gestures and the production of new meanings. / A terapia de casal influenciada pelo discurso do construcionismo social, em sua multiplicidade teórica, enfatiza o uso da linguagem como construtora de realidades, porém, tipicamente, restringe seu interesse aos recursos da linguagem verbal, dedicando pouca atenção a outras formas linguísticas. Considerando possível contribuir com esse conhecimento, propomos a inclusão do desenho como recurso linguístico das práticas terapêuticas, ampliando o entendimento do uso da linguagem em uma ação conjunta responsiva-relacional de construção de sentidos. Assim, este estudo tem por objetivo compreender os processos relacionais de coconstrução de sentidos mediante a criação do desenho, no contexto de Terapia de Casal, buscando, especificamente, analisar as implicações da utilização do desenho na construção de narrativas de mudança de si e da relação conjugal. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio da vídeo-gravação do atendimento de três casais, em 10 sessões semanais, no contexto de uma clínica social. A análise dos dados, fundamentada na versão construcionista da poética social, incluiu as transcrições de todas as sessões, seguidas de leituras que possibilitaram a identificação de diferentes usos do desenho. A partir da análise dos desenhos produzidos pelos três casais, identificamos o desenho como recurso criativo para: (a) viabilizar a conversa dificultada pela tensão; (b) sinalizar o foco e a seleção da conversa oscilatória; (c) explorar o ainda não dito na conversa; (d) fortalecer as descrições e narrativas criadas na conversa e (e) sintetizar o processo avaliatório. A análise detalhada do processo terapêutico de um dos casais, o qual apresentou maior variação de elementos trabalhados referentes aos aspectos individual e conjugal, mostrou que a prática do desenho na terapêutica conjugal cria contextos participativos, nos quais os cônjuges puderam sentir-se seguros para o engajamento no processo criativo, com possibilidades inventivas de um vir a ser desejável e satisfatório. Dessa forma, o desenho configurou-se em recurso propiciatório para trazer vida ao uso da palavra, bem como promotor de outras formas de falar libertadoras do cativeiro dos modos usuais, normatizados dentro das relações humanas. Na terapia de casal, o desenho é possível como uma nova parte de nossa linguagem que incorporada à usual, dentro dela, permitirá a aprendizagem de novos gestos e a produção de novos sentidos. / Mestre em Psicologia Aplicada

A joalheria tem se desenvolvido juntamente com novas tecnologias e aprimoramentos em processos de fabricação, sendo um reflexo de mudanças na sociedade e na indústria. Determinadas gemas, como a ágata, têm sido beneficiadas para a fabricação de adornos e ornamentos, contudo algumas características do material permanecem pouco estudadas, como modificações em sua microestrutura durante o processamento. Dentre as novas tecnologias de processamento para a ágata, encontra-se a gravação a laser CO2. A tecnologia está associada a determinadas modificações superficiais na gema através da geração de uma porosidade secundária, dado ao fato que o material possui uma porosidade natural em escala micrométrica. Durante a gravação, diversos parâmetros podem ser definidos para aperfeiçoar o resultado do processo. Assim, a padronização universal de desenhos vetoriais pode facilitar a execução da gravação, principalmente com a utilização de formas preenchidas, normalmente realizada com imagens do tipo bitmaps JPEG. Visando estudar os efeitos do laser no material, esta pesquisa apresenta uma análise tridimensional, não-invasiva e de alta-resolução de uma amostra de ágata gravada, por meio de análises qualitativas e quantitativas, baseadas em microtomografia computadorizada de raios X. Os resultados mostraram que os efeitos de porosidade secundária, trincas e fraturas de expansão térmica ocorrem principalmente devido à presença de água no interior da amostra, tanto natural quanto proveniente de reações químicas perante o aquecimento do laser. Os volumes de material removido por expulsão e vaporização foram quantificados e ponderados com relação à distância percorrida pelo feixe. Após a compreensão dos efeitos, foram realizadas análises de padronização de diferentes espaçamentos para gravação de formas simples e/ou complexas, abertas e/ou fechadas, e preenchidas, com perfilometria de contato e microscopias. A padronização foi utilizada como base para o depósito de uma patente de invenção. / Jewelry has been developed along with new technologies and improvements in manufacturing processes, thus reflecting changes in society and industry. Certain gemstones, such as agate, have been processed for the manufacture of ornaments and adornments, however, some characteristics of the material remain little studied, such as modifications on its microstructure during processing. Among the new processing technologies for agate is CO2 laser engraving. The technology is associated with certain superficial modifications in the gemstone through the generation of a secondary porosity, due to the material having a natural porosity in a micron scale. During engraving, several parameters can be set to improve the processing result. Thus, a universal standardization of vector drawings can facilitate the execution of the engraving, mainly with the use of filled forms, usually performed with JPEG bitmaps type images. Aiming to study the effects of laser on the material, this research presents a threedimensional, non-invasive, and high-resolution analysis of an engraved agate sample through qualitative and quantitative studies based on X-ray computerized microtomography. Results showed that the effects of secondary porosity, thermal expansion cracks, and fractures occur mainly due to the presence of water within the sample, both natural and derived from chemical reactions due to the laser heating. Removed material volumes by expulsion and vaporization were quantified and weighted with respect to the distance moved by the beam. After the understanding of the effects, standardization analyzes of different spacings were made for the engraving of simple and/or complex, open and/or closed, and filled forms, with contact profilometry and microscopies. Standardization was used as the basis for a patent deposit.

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A joalheria tem se desenvolvido juntamente com novas tecnologias e aprimoramentos em processos de fabricação, sendo um reflexo de mudanças na sociedade e na indústria. Determinadas gemas, como a ágata, têm sido beneficiadas para a fabricação de adornos e ornamentos, contudo algumas características do material permanecem pouco estudadas, como modificações em sua microestrutura durante o processamento. Dentre as novas tecnologias de processamento para a ágata, encontra-se a gravação a laser CO2. A tecnologia está associada a determinadas modificações superficiais na gema através da geração de uma porosidade secundária, dado ao fato que o material possui uma porosidade natural em escala micrométrica. Durante a gravação, diversos parâmetros podem ser definidos para aperfeiçoar o resultado do processo. Assim, a padronização universal de desenhos vetoriais pode facilitar a execução da gravação, principalmente com a utilização de formas preenchidas, normalmente realizada com imagens do tipo bitmaps JPEG. Visando estudar os efeitos do laser no material, esta pesquisa apresenta uma análise tridimensional, não-invasiva e de alta-resolução de uma amostra de ágata gravada, por meio de análises qualitativas e quantitativas, baseadas em microtomografia computadorizada de raios X. Os resultados mostraram que os efeitos de porosidade secundária, trincas e fraturas de expansão térmica ocorrem principalmente devido à presença de água no interior da amostra, tanto natural quanto proveniente de reações químicas perante o aquecimento do laser. Os volumes de material removido por expulsão e vaporização foram quantificados e ponderados com relação à distância percorrida pelo feixe. Após a compreensão dos efeitos, foram realizadas análises de padronização de diferentes espaçamentos para gravação de formas simples e/ou complexas, abertas e/ou fechadas, e preenchidas, com perfilometria de contato e microscopias. A padronização foi utilizada como base para o depósito de uma patente de invenção. / Jewelry has been developed along with new technologies and improvements in manufacturing processes, thus reflecting changes in society and industry. Certain gemstones, such as agate, have been processed for the manufacture of ornaments and adornments, however, some characteristics of the material remain little studied, such as modifications on its microstructure during processing. Among the new processing technologies for agate is CO2 laser engraving. The technology is associated with certain superficial modifications in the gemstone through the generation of a secondary porosity, due to the material having a natural porosity in a micron scale. During engraving, several parameters can be set to improve the processing result. Thus, a universal standardization of vector drawings can facilitate the execution of the engraving, mainly with the use of filled forms, usually performed with JPEG bitmaps type images. Aiming to study the effects of laser on the material, this research presents a threedimensional, non-invasive, and high-resolution analysis of an engraved agate sample through qualitative and quantitative studies based on X-ray computerized microtomography. Results showed that the effects of secondary porosity, thermal expansion cracks, and fractures occur mainly due to the presence of water within the sample, both natural and derived from chemical reactions due to the laser heating. Removed material volumes by expulsion and vaporization were quantified and weighted with respect to the distance moved by the beam. After the understanding of the effects, standardization analyzes of different spacings were made for the engraving of simple and/or complex, open and/or closed, and filled forms, with contact profilometry and microscopies. Standardization was used as the basis for a patent deposit.