Language, Vision and Music

1. Dedication; 2. About the Editors; 3. Introduction (by Mc Kevitt, Paul); 4. Part I: Language & vision (by Mc Kevitt, Paul); 5. Multimedia integration: A system-theoretic perspective (by Connolly, John H.); 6. Visualising lexical prosodic representations for speech applications (by Carson-Berndsen, Julie); 7. A simulated language understanding agent using virtual perception (by Gurney, John); 8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (by Cohen-Rose, A.L.); 9. Affective multimodal interaction with a 3D agent (by Brondsted, Tom); 10. CHAMELEON: A general platform for performing intellimedia (by Brondsted, Tom); 11. Machine perception of real-time multimodal natural dialogue (by Thorisson, Kris); 12. Communicative rhythm in gesture and speech (by Wachsmuth, Ipke); 13. Signals and meanings of gaze in animated faces (by Poggi, Isabella); 14. Speech, vision and aphasic communication (by Ahlsen, Elisabeth); 15. Synaesthesia and knowing (by Gammack, John G.); 16. What synaesthesia is (and is not) (by Day, Sean A.); 17. Synaesthesia is not a psychic anomaly, but a form of non-verbal thinking (by Galeyev, Bulat M.); 18. Part II: Language & music (by O Nuallain, Sean); 19. Music and language: Metaphor and causation (by Griffith, Niall J.L.); 20. Expression, content and meaning in language and music: An integrated semiotic analysis (by Callaghan, Jean); 21. Auditory structuring in explaining dyslexia (by Karma, Kai); 22. A comparative review of priming effects in language and music (by Tillmann, Barbara); 23. The respective roles of conscious- and subconscious processes for interpreting language and music (by Sabah, Gerard); 24. Aesthetic forms of expression as information delivery units (by Nemirovsky, Paul); 25. The lexicon of the Conductor's face (by Poggi, Isabella); 26. How do interactive virtual operas shift relationships between music, text and image? (by Bonardi, Alain); 27. "Let's Improvise Together": A testbed for a formalism in language vision and sounds integration (by Antonini, Riccardo); 28. On tonality in Irish traditional music (by O Nuallain, Sean); 29. The relationship between the imitation and recognition of non-verbal rhythms and language comprehension (by Treharne, Dilys); 30. Rising-falling contours in speech: A metaphor of tension-resolution schemes in European musical traditions? Evidence from regional varieties of Italian (by Romano, Antonio); 31. Part III: Creativity (by Mulvihill, Conn); 32. Plenary panel session: What is creativity? (by Antonini, Riccardo); 33. The analogical foundations of creativity in language, culture & the arts: "The Upper Paleolithic to 2100CE" (by Klein, Sheldon); 34. Creativity in humans, computers, and the rest of God's creatures: A meditation from within the economic world (by Rickards, Tudor); 35. The origins of Mexican metaphor in Tarahumara Indian religion (by Lonergan, Julia E.); 36. Is creativity algorithmic? (by Mulvihill, Conn); 37. Subject Index; 38. Author Index