Neuropsychological studies on jargon.

Neuropsychological studies on lead workers in Singapore.

The neuropsychological performance of a group of 49 workers occupationally exposed to lead was compared with a matched control group of 36 non-exposed workers. The psychometric measurements were composed of tests covering a broad range of different neuropsychological functions, particular emphasis being given to perceptual motor ability and attention concentration functioning. A questionnaire t...

Neuropsychological studies of callosal agenesis

A developmental error or arrest during the foetal growth of the telencephalic midline can lead to partial or complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. A person who is born with no corpus callosum at all is likely also to lack the hippocampal commissure, but unlikely to lack the anterior commissure (Loeser & Alvord, 1968 a). Indeed, some congenitally acallosal individuals appear to have an enlar...

Neuropsychological studies of callosal agenesis

A developmental error or arrest during the foetal growth of the telencephalic midline can lead to partial or complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. A person who is born with no corpus callosum at all is likely also to lack the hippocampal commissure, but unlikely to lack the anterior commissure (Loeser & Alvord, 1968 a). Indeed, some congenitally acallosal individuals appear to have an enlar...

Identifying Jargon in Texts

This paper describes on-going work on using jargon to identify author’s beliefs. The main focus of research is to use statistical techniques to help identify particular lexical items that characterize the jargons of groups with particular beliefs. The main thesis was that groups that hold common beliefs tend also to develop common ways of speaking about the topic of those beliefs, ways that dif...

Neuropsychological and Ocular Motor Studies of Schizophrenia