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Examples of cue

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Luminance gradients are usually thought to provide cues about the interactions of light and surfaces that model the volume of the resulting object.
Narrative form integrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
One reason that learning to parse text may present a challenge is because, unlike speech, printed text conveys few direct prosodic cues.
Non-verbal cooperation was employed when the group was engaged in playing together and included musical and visual cues.
If we are generous in deciding what utterances involve transfer, the cue validity of the construction is markedly higher than the cue validity for verbs.
It can be hypothesized that males seem to require both visual and volatile cues.
It is perhaps more appropriate to describe these final vowels as phonological cues, an issue to which we return.
The distinct spontaneous activities of different bipolar cell types might provide a cue for the activity-dependent segregation of multiple parallel visual pathways.
These partners viewed the person's ' dysfunctional ' behaviours as indicating helplessness and confusion rather than seeing them as presentational cues to the person's preferred persona.
While performing a task, if a subject tries to use the normal hand, the bulky glove serves to remind (cue) them to not do so.
Although a low presence of cue phrases can lead to many undiscovered relations, they can serve as a reference for annotators.
They found that, overall, listeners of these languages paid less attention to stress than to intrasentential cues in deciding agent - patient relations.
Note that availability differs from the notion of frequency in that it refers to the presence of a cue as marker of a particular function.
It is possible that when children did not have a clear verb bias they relied on other cues to interpret the sentence.
Pragmatically neutral conditions provide no situational cue as to the referent set that needs to be restricted.
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acoustic cue
In the production of speech, there is a natural temporal precedence for the articulatory gesture over the associated acoustic cue.
audio cue
A reliance upon audio cues rather than an assumption that electrical signals will produce a desired affect appeared to create a more intimate relationship between the performer and computer.
emotional cue
In one pathway, insufficient or inefficient learning based upon experience would leave an individual unable to predict and respond quickly to emotional cues.
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