Expertise médicolégale du handicap cognitif

Génétique et neurosciences du développement cognitif - TT2 Developmental mechanisms leading to cognitive disparities between men and women

That men and women have different cognitive profiles is becoming less and less debated ; even if some people still argue that the alleged differences between male and female cognitive aptitudes is nothing more than a cultural stereotype, accumulating scientific evidence makes a compelling case for an innate disparity between a man’ and a woman’s brain. In any case, the question remains where th...

Un Modèle Cognitif de l’Interaction pour Agents Logiciels

This article deals with a humanmodel of interaction based on a psychological experiment. It presents an original architecture called BDIGGY where interaction and planning are linked homogeneously thanks to the BDI concept. BDIGGY includes a model of human interaction which is twofold : 1) it is based on the Speech Act theory to model the utterances ; 2) it uses a discourse model, represented by...

Evaluation of Hearing Handicap

The American Academy of Otolaryngology and American Council of Otolaryngology (AAOACO) define hearing handicap as a disability to understand sentences under everyday vocal and listening conditions, and describe procedures for its estimation from pure-tone threshold hearing levels . Research now reveals that the AAO-ACO procedures underestimate measured hearing handicap by the equivalent of aver...

Combating Social Handicap

Report on a group of parents with handicapped children who came together to organise activities to overcome their childrens' lack of social education.

Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI).