Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2016 Heft: 210 Seiten: 215-234.

Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2014 Heft: 202 Seiten: 631-640.

After defining the concept of error as it applies to Roentgen semiotics, we present a typology of the sources of semiotic error in clinical practice. It is a typology based on clinical observation, with the Peircean Categories and the triadic structure of Roentgen signs as organizing principles. This is followed by a review of a general psychological typology of the sources of human error. We conclude with the demonstration of a Category preserving correspondence between psychologic and semiotic sources of error. (...) Thus, independently derived and empirically based typologies of psychologic and semiotic error are shown to have the same categorical structure. (shrink)

Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2016 Heft: 210 Seiten: 209-214.

Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2018 Heft: 221 Seiten: 105-121.

Previous attempts to find meaning in emotional responses to music often begin with analysis of dynamic tonal patterns, with observation of the emotional behavior of listeners or with self-reports of emotional feelings. In this study, we begin with a somewhat detailed description of physical processes in the human auditory system that lead to the activation of processes in the autonomic nervous system, which produce embodied emotional responses to environmental challenges. We then propose an answer to the question: Why were some (...) of the same embodied responses that were originally adapted to meet the challenges of self-preservation and self-perpetuation in the course of human evolution coopted to serve as responses to perceived dynamic patterns in music? We find that a likely answer to this question involves uncertainties in the possible outcomes of antecedent or consequent musical events. (shrink)