During the past 10 years, 851 children visited the Child Study Institute of Japan Women's University for educational goidance. Their ages ranged from 3 to 9 yr. and their mean IQ was 123.3 (SD of 14.8, range 85 to 165) when tested with the Tanaka-Binet Intelligence Scale (Tanaka, 1954). Fig. 1 indicates the IQ distribution. Evidently Ss had on the average higher IQs than the "normal" distributi...

Signature tree "machine learning" , pattern recognition heuristics are investigated for the specific problem of computer recognition of human speech. When the data base of given utterances is insufficient to establish trends with confidence, a large number of feature extractors must be employed and "recognition" of an unknown pattern made by comparing its feature values with those of known patt...

The consequences of febrile seizures (FSs) in infants are still a matter of debate. It is important to develop non-invasive tools to determine markers of brain function that could have predictive value for the outcome of FSs infants.Pattern visual evoked potentials (pVEPs) were recorded in 18 FS infants (mean age of seizure 15.97 months). Spectral density and coherence analyses were performed i...

We adapted a visual object detection framework, originally applied to face recognition, to perform fast and robust door handle detection. We detect objects in real time using a cascade of weak classifiers. The framework rejects most image subwindows early on in the cascade and a very small minority ever reaches the later nodes. Our system achieves a high detection rate (approximately 95%) while...

Normative data on intelligence in adults with Down syndrome was collected on 93 males and 80 females, aged 16 years and above, who had been given the Suzuki-Binet Intelligence Scale. Both the male and female groups showed bimodal curves in the distributions of IQs. Only for the low IQ groups, the distributions were defined by binomial distributions. The mean ages of starting to walk for the low...

The study examined the adjustment problems of educable mentally retarded students of Ranchi (India). The total sample in the study consisted of 200 subjects – out of which 100 served as experimental group (mentally retarded) and 100 as normal control. The subjects in the experimental group were selected from the schools of mentally retarded and normal control subjects were selected from differe...

BACKGROUND Iron supplements are often prescribed during pregnancy despite the lack of intervention trials that have assessed the effects of supplementation in pregnancy on childhood development. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine whether iron supplementation during pregnancy influences childhood intelligence quotient (IQ) in an industrialized country. DESIGN Pregnant women (n = 430) w...

STRUCTURAL EXTENSION OF THE CATTELL-HORN-CARROLL CROSS-BATTERY APPROACH TO INCLUDE MEASURES OF VISUAL-MOTOR INTEGRATION by Janell Hargrove Brooks In spite of the long-standing tradition of including measures of visual-motor integration in psychological evaluations, visual-motor abilities have not been included in the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities or its complementary ...