Non-functional requirements (NFR) have a crucial role in the software development process because they correspond to the characteristics and restrictions on which the software must running and represent factors that influence the time and cost of software development. Nevertheless, many organizations do not perform these requirements elicitation properly. This paper presents an approach to crea...

Distracting emotional information impairs attention more in schizophrenia (SCZ) than in never-psychotic individuals. However, it is unclear whether this impairment and its neural circuitry is indicative generally of psychosis, or specifically of SCZ, and whether it is even more specific to certain SCZ symptoms (eg, deficit syndrome). It is also unclear if this abnormality contributes to impaire...

Nowadays there is a significant increase of the incidence of left-handedness and sinistrality among schoolchildren. They demonstrate a large number of left-sided motor and sensory preferences which are considered as external markers of functional hemispheric asymmetry of the brain. The purposes of this study are to investigate gender peculiarities and specificity of age-related dynamics of late...

The brain regions subserving the processing of emotional prosody have been investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) but few studies investigated direct electrical neuronal activity using intracranial recordings in humans. Previous studies have shown the involvement of the amygdala and the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) in the processing of em...

Neuroimaging studies have shown continued structural and functional development in neural circuitry underlying social and emotional behaviour during adolescence. This article explores adolescent neurocognitive development in two domains: sensitivity to social rejection and Theory of Mind (ToM). Adolescents often report hypersensitivity to social rejection. The studies presented here suggest tha...

One in five American children grows up in poverty. Childhood poverty has far-reaching adverse impacts on cognitive, social and emotional development. Altered development of neurocircuits, subserving emotion regulation, is one possible pathway for childhood poverty's ill effects. Children exposed to poverty were followed into young adulthood and then studied using functional brain imaging with a...