Communication between people with dementia and others becomes increasingly difficult as the disease progresses. Symptoms such as memory loss, speech impairments and limitations in higher cognitive functions affect people’s abilities for communication and social interaction. At the same time, meaningful interactions with others are important for the quality of life of people with dementia. In th...

Patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) often show communicative-pragmatic deficits involving different expressive modalities, i.e. linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic. Most previous research has evaluated pragmatic ability using linguistic tasks only, while the extralinguistic aspects of communication have received less attention. The aim of the present study was to provide a mu...

Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are typically associated with higher demand for noncognitive abilities. Consistent with the evolutio...

The medical interview is the physician's initial and perhaps most important diagnostic procedure, but physicians vary in their abilities and skills in physician-patient communication. Information gathering, relationship building, and patient education are the 3 essential functions of the medical interview. A physician-centered interview using a biomedical model can impede disclosure of problems...

This paper presents a novel communication model to simulate various crowd behaviors such as riot. Our communication model is heavily based on the results from sociology research. Collective behaviors can emerge out of social processes such as emotion contagion and conformity effect among individual agents. The communication model has been implemented in our crowd simulation system, IMCrowd, in ...

Linguistic and related cognitive abilities were investigated two years after dominant left hemispherectomy for cerebral malignancy in a 12 year old female. Auditory comprehension of speech was superior to other modes of language abilities with expressive speech being the least developed. Findings suggested an isolation or non-communication between the systems for speaking and for writing and vi...

Highly capable multiple robot architectures often resort to micromanagement to provide enhanced cooperative abilities, sacrificing individual autonomy. Conversely, multi-robot architectures that maintain individual autonomy are often limited in their cooperative abilities. This article presents a modified three layer architecture that solves both of these issues. The addition of a Coordinator l...

Evolutionary robotics is a biologically inspired approach to robotics that is advantageous to studying the evolution of language. A new model for the evolution of language is presented. This model is used to investigate the interrelationships between communication abilities, namely linguistic production and comprehension, and other behavioral skills. For example, the model supports the hypothes...

Evolutionary robotics is a biologically inspired approach to robotics that is advantageous to studying the evolution of language. A new model for the evolution of language is presented. This model is used to investigate the interrelationships between communication abilities, namely linguistic production and comprehension, and other behavioral skills. For example, the model supports the hypothes...

Definition and rationale. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are tasks or responsibilities that faculty entrust to a trainee to execute, unsupervised, once he or she has obtained adequate competence. EPAs are executable within a given time frame; observable and measurable; and suitable for focused entrustment decisions. EPAs are units of work (e.g., anesthetic care of an uncomplicated p...