Part of a series providing a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. This volume contains a balanced set of papers focusing on "language & vision", "language & music", and "creativity".

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

Initiatives such as that represented here which bring together scholars from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds throw much light on natural language and alternative communicative systems and illuminate our understanding of the complex relationships that exist between language, mind and reality.