Verbal behaviour

Grammer, K., Kruck, K. Magnusson, M. 1996. The courtship dance mathematical algorithms for pattern detection in non-verbal behaviour. J. nonverb. Behav. (under revision). 

Aaronson, B. S. Some Quantitative Properties of Verbal Behaviour... 

Verbal and non-verbal behaviour The use of gestures, posture, eye contact and space combined with the vocabulary and actual words and labels for concepts may generate communication difficulty... 

Collins, A. M., and Quillian, M. R. (1969). Retrieval time from semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 9, 432-438. 

Because archaeologists study the past, they are unable to observe human behaviour directly. Unlike historians, they also lack access to verbally encoded records of the past. Instead they must attempt to infer human behaviour and beliefs from the surviving remains of what people made and used before they can begin, like other social scientists, to explain phenomena. ... 

Yet another technique has been to interview children or adults (such as teachers, Sch fer Smith, 1996) directly, either using questionnaires (Smith et al., 1992), or interviews (Boulton, 1992a). Clearly, people s answers may not be accurate in terms of what we observe, but this method should inform us about what they think and perceive. This has it s own intrinsic interest, and also interest in terms of discrepancies between beliefs and behaviour. In the case of older children, especially adolescents, we may get uniquely useful insights, while bearing in mind the possible distortions due to selective perception and memory, limited insight to motivation, and social desirability in responses, that bear on verbal report data (Boulton, 1992a). 

Common to all these approaches is that a continuous behaviour stream is forced into a series of event categories which might subsume comparable, but visually distinct behaviours. For example a non-verbal threat can be done in many ways. By raising an arm fast or slow, with fist clenched or not, the movement staying at the maximum flexion for a cer-... 

Then, as maturation continues, the behaviours that these separate systems emit are monitored by the one system we come to use more and more, namely, the verbal, natural language system. Gradually, a concept of self-control develops so that the verbal self comes to know the impulses for action that arise from the other selves, and it either tries to inhibit these impulses or free them, as the case may be.17... 

Hopkins verbal learning task Source memory task prose recall sub-test of the rivermead behavioural 0.26 mg/kg, IV 0.65 mg/kg/1 h active/ placebo lamotrigine 300 mg IV 0.4 vs. 0.8 mg/kg/80 min... 

Rime, B. (1983). The elimination of visible behaviour from social interactions effects on verbal, nonverbal, and interpersonal variables. European Journal of... 

Cholinesterase inhibitors have been used widely in the treatment of both cognitive and behavioural changes in adult and elderly Down syndrome (DS) individuals. Thus, DS adults treated with 3-5 mg/day donepezil have improvement in verbal... 

Hetrzman (2003) One adult treated with 5 mg/day donepezil DSM-IV Verbal and behavioural regression after 1-month treatment. 

Rivastigmine Chez et al. (2004) Open-label study. Thirty two children (unspecified age) DSM-IV Improvements in autistic behaviour, particularly verbalization. Assessments done using Childhood Autistic Rating Scale, Gardner s Expressive and Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary tests and the Conners Parent Rating Scale. 

A number of methods have been proposed for particle shape analysis these include verbal description, various shape coefficients and shape factors, curvature signatures, moment invariants, solid shape descriptors, the octal chain code and mathematical functions like Fourier series expansion or fractal dimensions. As in particle size analysis, here one can also detect intense preoccupation with very detailed and accurate description of particle shape, and yet efforts to relate the shape-describing parameters to powder bulk behaviour are relatively scarce.10... 

Simultaneously a verbal account of the successive behavioural elements of the animal was recorded on tape. The 3 most important behavioural elements were... 

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