TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nabi, Haifaa
T1  - La Nausée : Salut par l’art ou par les autres ?
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - In this article dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel La Nausée, we analyze how the idea of conversion to art grows in the imagination of the hero, Antoine Roquentin. Furthermore we show that all the narrative actions in the novel are based on the hero’s communicational interaction with the other characters. This lonely person who complains in his diary about social exclusion, yet he converts to art not through his reflections, but through communica-ting with the other characters. Also, many critical studies on La Nausée have considered jazz music that the hero listens to in a café as the critical moment of his conversion. In our opinion this reflects juste one phase of a connected sequence of events through which the hero passes from a state of relational negativity and existential alienation to a state of openness, achieved again mainly by the virtue of other characters.
KW  - conversion to art
KW  - others
KW  - communication
KW  - writing
KW  - loneliness
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329799
SN  - 2364-6705
VL  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Lut, Kateryna
A1  - Starenkova, Hanna
ED  - Lazebna, Nataliia
ED  - Kumar, Dinesh
T1  - The Relationship between Language, Culture, and Development of Society
T2  - Studies in Modern English
N2  - The paper analyses specific characteristics of language that influence the development of culture and societies. The problem of the connection between language and culture has occupied the minds of many famous scientists: some believe that language is a part of the culture as a whole; others think that language is only a form of cultural expression. Undoubtedly, language constitutes a vital component of the cultural background underlying social development. Language is an essential means of communication and interaction. However, language is at the same time sovereign about culture as a whole and can be separate from culture or compared to culture as an equal element (i.e., that language is neither a form nor a component of culture).
KW  - language
KW  - culture
KW  - expression
KW  - development
KW  - communication
KW  - interaction
KW  - component
KW  - social
KW  - connection
KW  - background
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296484
PB  - Würzburg University Press
CY  - Würzburg
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hornung, Christoph
ED  - Lambrecht, Gabriella-Maria
ED  - Sendner, Annika
T1  - Kommunikation und Repräsentation in den romanischen Kulturen. Festschrift für Gerhard Penzkofer
N2  - Diese Festschrift ehrt den Romanisten und Slawisten Gerhard Penzkofer anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags. Kolleginnen und Kollegen sowie Schülerinnen und Schüler, die Gerhard Penzkofer auf seinem bisherigen Weg unter anderem in München, Bamberg und Würzburg sowohl fachlich als auch persönlich nahestanden, publizieren hier Beiträge, die von seinen Forschungen inspiriert sind. Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchungen, die den italienischen, französischen und spanischen Sprachraum umschließen, steht das Verhältnis von Kommunikation und Repräsentation. Dabei umfassen die Beiträge Aspekte, die historisch vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert und thematisch von der mittelalterlichen Exempelsammlung bis zur postdiktatorialen Geschichtskonstruktion reichen.
KW  - Kommunikation <Motiv>
KW  - Repräsentation <Motiv>
KW  - Spanische Literatur
KW  - Französische Literatur
KW  - Italienische Literatur
KW  - Kommunikation <Motiv>
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Repräsentation
KW  - Romanische Sprachen
KW  - communication
KW  - spanish literature
KW  - french literature
KW  - italian literature
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-152021
UR  - https://www.avm-verlag.de/detailview?no=5477-055
SN  - 9783954770557
PB  - AVM.edition
CY  - München
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jin, Jing
A1  - Allison, Brendan Z.
A1  - Kaufmann, Tobias
A1  - Kübler, Andrea
A1  - Zhang, Yu
A1  - Wang, Xingyu
A1  - Cichocki, Andrzej
T1  - The Changing Face of P300 BCIs: A Comparison of Stimulus Changes in a P300 BCI Involving Faces, Emotion, and Movement
JF  - PLoS One
N2  - Background: One of the most common types of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is called a P300 BCI, since it relies on the P300 and other event-related potentials (ERPs). In the canonical P300 BCI approach, items on a monitor flash briefly to elicit the necessary ERPs. Very recent work has shown that this approach may yield lower performance than alternate paradigms in which the items do not flash but instead change in other ways, such as moving, changing colour or changing to characters overlaid with faces. 
Methodology/Principal Findings: The present study sought to extend this research direction by parametrically comparing different ways to change items in a P300 BCI. Healthy subjects used a P300 BCI across six different conditions. Three conditions were similar to our prior work, providing the first direct comparison of characters flashing, moving, and changing to faces. Three new conditions also explored facial motion and emotional expression. The six conditions were compared across objective measures such as classification accuracy and bit rate as well as subjective measures such as perceived difficulty. In line with recent studies, our results indicated that the character flash condition resulted in the lowest accuracy and bit rate. All four face conditions (mean accuracy >91%) yielded significantly better performance than the flash condition (mean accuracy = 75%). 
Conclusions/Significance: Objective results reaffirmed that the face paradigm is superior to the canonical flash approach that has dominated P300 BCIs for over 20 years. The subjective reports indicated that the conditions that yielded better performance were not considered especially burdensome. Therefore, although further work is needed to identify which face paradigm is best, it is clear that the canonical flash approach should be replaced with a face paradigm when aiming at increasing bit rate. However, the face paradigm has to be further explored with practical applications particularly with locked-in patients.
KW  - ERPS
KW  - communication
KW  - TO-target interval
KW  - visual-evoked potentials
KW  - brain-computer-interface
KW  - recognition
KW  - amplitude
KW  - paradigm
KW  - systems
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-134173
VL  - 7
IS  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yu, Leo
A1  - Natarajan, Chandra M.
A1  - Horikiri, Tomoyuki
A1  - Langrock, Carsten
A1  - Pelc, Jason S.
A1  - Tanner, Michael G.
A1  - Abe, Eisuke
A1  - Maier, Sebastian
A1  - Schneider, Christian
A1  - Höfling, Sven
A1  - Kamp, Martin
A1  - Hadfield, Robert H.
A1  - Fejer, Martin M.
A1  - Yamamoto, Yoshihisa
T1  - Two-photon interference at telecom wavelengths for time-bin-encoded single photons from quantum-dot spin qubits
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Practical quantum communication between remote quantum memories rely on single photons at telecom wavelengths. Although spin-photon entanglement has been demonstrated in atomic and solid-state qubit systems, the produced single photons at short wavelengths and with polarization encoding are not suitable for long-distance communication, because they suffer from high propagation loss and depolarization in optical fibres. Establishing entanglement between remote quantum nodes would further require the photons generated from separate nodes to be indistinguishable. Here, we report the observation of correlations between a quantum-dot spin and a telecom single photon across a 2-km fibre channel based on time-bin encoding and background-free frequency downconversion. The downconverted photon at telecom wavelengths exhibits two-photon interference with another photon from an independent source, achieving a mean wavepacket overlap of greater than 0.89 despite their original wavelength mismatch (900 and 911 nm). The quantum-networking operations that we demonstrate will enable practical communication between solid-state spin qubits across long distances.
KW  - atom
KW  - 1550 nm
KW  - up-conversion
KW  - heralded entanglement
KW  - emission
KW  - interface
KW  - generation
KW  - communication
KW  - downconversion
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-138677
VL  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Simon, Nadine
A1  - Käthner, Ivo
A1  - Ruf, Carolin A.
A1  - Pasqualotto, Emanuele
A1  - Kübler, Andrea
A1  - Halder, Sebastian
T1  - An auditory multiclass brain-computer interface with natural stimuli: Usability evaluation with healthy participants and a motor impaired end user
JF  - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
N2  - Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can serve as muscle independent communication aids. Persons, who are unable to control their eye muscles (e.g., in the completely locked-in state) or have severe visual impairments for other reasons, need BCI systems that do not rely on the visual modality. For this reason, BCIs that employ auditory stimuli were suggested. In this study, a multiclass BCI spelling system was implemented that uses animal voices with directional cues to code rows and columns of a letter matrix. To reveal possible training effects with the system, 11 healthy participants performed spelling tasks on 2 consecutive days. In a second step, the system was tested by a participant with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in two sessions. In the first session, healthy participants spelled with an average accuracy of 76% (3.29 bits/min) that increased to 90% (4.23 bits/min) on the second day. Spelling accuracy by the participant with ALS was 20% in the first and 47% in the second session. The results indicate a strong training effect for both the healthy participants and the participant with ALS. While healthy participants reached high accuracies in the first session and second session, accuracies for the participant with ALS were not sufficient for satisfactory communication in both sessions. More training sessions might be needed to improve spelling accuracies. The study demonstrated the feasibility of the auditory BCI with healthy users and stresses the importance of training with auditory multiclass BCIs, especially for potential end-users of BCI with disease.
KW  - P300
KW  - EEG
KW  - auditory BCI
KW  - brain-computer interface
KW  - communication
KW  - ALS
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-126450
VL  - 8
IS  - 1039
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kleih, Sonja C.
A1  - Herweg, Andreas
A1  - Kaufmann, Tobias
A1  - Staiger-Sälzer, Pit
A1  - Gerstner, Natascha
A1  - Kübler, Andrea
T1  - The WIN-speller: a new intuitive auditory brain-computer interface spelling application
JF  - Frontiers in Neuroscience
N2  - The objective of this study was to test the usability of a new auditory Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) application for communication. We introduce a word based, intuitive auditory spelling paradigm the WIN-speller. In the WIN-speller letters are grouped by words, such as the word KLANG representing the letters A, G, K, L, and N. Thereby, the decoding step between perceiving a code and translating it to the stimuli it represents becomes superfluous. We tested 11 healthy volunteers and four end-users with motor impairment in the copy spelling mode. Spelling was successful with an average accuracy of 84% in the healthy sample. Three of the end-users communicated with average accuracies of 80% or higher while one user was not able to communicate reliably. Even though further evaluation is required, the WIN-speller represents a potential alternative for BCI based communication in end-users.
KW  - Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
KW  - communication
KW  - P300
KW  - motor-impaired end-user
KW  - auditory
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-125972
VL  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sommerlandt, F. M. J.
A1  - Huber, W.
A1  - Spaethe, J.
T1  - Social Information in the Stingless Bee, Trigona corvina Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae): The Use of Visual and Olfactory Cues at the Food Site
JF  - Sociobiology
N2  - For social insects, colony performance is largely dependent on the quantity and quality of food intake and thus on the efficiency of its foragers. In addition to innate preferences and previous experience, foragers can use social information to decide when and where to forage. In some stingless bee (Meliponini) species, individual foraging decisions are shown to be influenced by the presence of social information at resource sites. In dual choice tests, we studied whether visual and/or olfactory cues affect individual decision-making in rigona corvina Cockerell and if this information is species-specific. We found that T. corvina foragers possess local enhancement: they are attracted by olfactory and visual cues released by conspecifics but avoid feeders associated with heterospecific individuals of the species Tetragona ziegleri (Friese). Overall, olfactory cues seem to be more important than visual cues, but information by visual cues alone is sufficient for discrimination.
KW  - visual cues
KW  - recruitment
KW  - local enhancement
KW  - odor marks
KW  - communication
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-118120
VL  - 61
IS  - 4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martens, Suzanne
A1  - Bensch, Michael
A1  - Halder, Sebastian
A1  - Hill, Jeremy
A1  - Nijboer, Femke
A1  - Ramos-Murguialday, Ander
A1  - Schoelkopf, Bernhard
A1  - Birbaumer, Niels
A1  - Gharabaghi, Alireza
T1  - Epidural electrocorticography for monitoring of arousal in locked-in state
JF  - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
N2  - Electroencephalography (EEG) often fails to assess both the level (i.e., arousal) and the content (i.e., awareness) of pathologically altered consciousness in patients without motor responsiveness. This might be related to a decline of awareness, to episodes of low arousal and disturbed sleep patterns, and/or to distorting and attenuating effects of the skull and intermediate tissue on the recorded brain signals. Novel approaches are required to overcome these limitations. We introduced epidural electrocorticography (ECoG) for monitoring of cortical physiology in a late-stage amytrophic lateral sclerosis patient in completely locked-in state (CLIS) Despite long-term application for a period of six months, no implant related complications occurred. Recordings from the left frontal cortex were sufficient to identify three arousal states. Spectral analysis of the intrinsic oscillatory activity enabled us to extract state-dependent dominant frequencies at <4, similar to 7 and similar to 20 Hz, representing sleep-like periods, and phases of low and elevated arousal, respectively. In the absence of other biomarkers, ECoG proved to be a reliable tool for monitoring circadian rhythmicity, i.e., avoiding interference with the patient when he was sleeping and exploiting time windows of responsiveness. Moreover, the effects of interventions addressing the patient's arousal, e.g., amantadine medication, could be evaluated objectively on the basis of physiological markers, even in the absence of behavioral parameters. Epidural ECoG constitutes a feasible trade-off between surgical risk and quality of recorded brain signals to gain information on the patient's present level of arousal. This approach enables us to optimize the timing of interactions and medical interventions, all of which should take place when the patient is in a phase of high arousal. Furthermore, avoiding low responsiveness periods will facilitate measures to implement alternative communication pathways involving brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
KW  - temporal-lobe epilepsy
KW  - neuroprosthetic devices
KW  - brain computer interface
KW  - event-related potentials
KW  - intraoperative electrocoicography
KW  - electrocorticography
KW  - epidural recording
KW  - locked-in state
KW  - coma
KW  - consciousness
KW  - paralyzed patients
KW  - EEG
KW  - sleep
KW  - communication
KW  - frequencies
KW  - amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114863
VL  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Zehner, Bettina
T1  - Deutsche Frauen- und Männerzeitschriften : Kommunikation von Unterhaltung, Information, Beratung ... oder einer Märchenwelt?
T1  - Women´s and Men´s Magazines in Germany : Communication of Entertainment, Information, Advice ... or a Fairytale
N2  - Dargestellt werden sprachliche und visuelle Mittel der Kommunikation in Deutschen Frauen- und Männerzeitschriften.
N2  - Linguistic and visual instruments of communication in German Women´s and Men´s magazine are presented.
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Frauenzeitschrift
KW  - Herrenmagazin
KW  - Kommunikation
KW  - magazine
KW  - periodical
KW  - communication
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-73532
ER  -