Sökning: "Cognitive Studies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 1648 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cognitive Studies.

  1. 1. Facing Nature : Cultivating Experience in the Nature Connection Movement

    Författare :Henrik Ohlsson; David Thurfjell; Cecilie Rubow; Kocku von Stuckrad; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; face; facing; cultivation of experience; nature connection; nature connection movement; animism; compartmentalisation; de-compartmentalisation; hermeneutic phenomenology; Historical Studies; Historiska studier;

    Sammanfattning : Through field research in Sweden and Finland between 2017 and 2022, the thesis follows a burgeoning social movement in which connection with nature is seen as a means of both personal wellbeing and ecological sustainability at the societal level. The thesis describes and analyses ideas, practices, organisations, and literature in a contemporary cultural context in the borderland between health practice, environmental activism, and spirituality. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Artefactual Intelligence: The Development and Use of Cognitively Congenial Artefacts

    Författare :David de Léon; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pervasive computing; affective computing; persuasive computing; Psychology; Psykologi; computer-mediated extrospection; precommitment; self-control; situated cognition; distributed motivation; cognitive ethnography; distributed cognition; cognitive biographies; redesign; task–artefact cycle; artefact evolution; artefact design; task structure; cognitive task; cognitive congeniality; artefactual intelligence; cognitive artefacts; task environment; tools; Cognition; artefacts; ubiquitous computing;

    Sammanfattning : How can tools help structure tasks to make them cognitively easier to perform? How do artefacts, and our strategies for using them, develop over time in cognitively beneficial ways? These are two of the main questions that are explored in the five papers collected in this thesis. The first paper details an ethnographic study conducted on people cooking in their homes. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Effects of online advertising on children's visual attention and task performance during free and goal-directed internet use : A media psychology approach to children's website interaction and advert distraction

    Författare :Nils Holmberg; Humanistlaboratoriet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; online advertising; children; website interaction; visual attention; distraction; cognitive load; eye-tracking; task-orientation; media effects; visual saliency; executive functions; media literacy; inhibitory control;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of four eye-tracking studies that investigate how salient online advertising and children's level of executive function contributes to their advert distraction. In Study 1, children aged 9 were instructed to surf freely on the internet while all advert material appearing on-screen was registered. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Cognitive load in dialogue interpreting : Experience and directionality

    Författare :Aleksandra Adler; Elisabet Tiselius; Birgitta Englund Dimitrova; Christopher D. Mellinger; Agnieszka Chmiel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dialogue interpreting; cognitive load; interpreting experience; directionality; cognitive translation and interpreting studies; disfluency; eye-tracking; mixed-methods; översättningsvetenskap; Translation Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the effect of experience and language direction on cognitive load in dialogue interpreting. The general objective of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of cognitive processes involved in dialogue interpreting. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Cognitive deafness : The deterioration of phonological representations in adults with an acquired severe hearing loss and its implications for speech understanding

    Författare :Ulf Andersson; Björn Lyxell; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acquired hearing loss; phonological processsing; cochlear implants; speechreading; Disability research; Handikappsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis was to examine possible cognitive consequences of acquired hearing loss and the possible impact of these cognitive consequences on the ability to process spoken language presented through visual speechreading or through a cochlear implant.The main findings of the present thesis can be summarised in the following conclusions: (a) The phonological processing capabilities of individuals who have acquired a severe hearing loss or deafness deteriorate progressively as a function of number of years with a complete or partial auditory deprivation. LÄS MER