Patients in a treatment programme for severe alcohol dependence were tested on a battery of tests designed to examine organizational and visuo-spatial abilities. Analysis using a case-study approach indicated independent organizational and visuo-spatial impairments. An understanding of aetiological factors underlying these cognitive deficits and implications for treatment are discussed.

The aim o f t h e paper i s t o d i s c u s s s e v e r a l i s s u e s t h a t u s u a l l y o c c u r when c o m p u t a t i o n a l l i n g u i s t i c s comes i n t o i n t e r a c t i o n s w i t h so r a p i d l y g rowing s~eas o f a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g ence as i t can be s e e n e . g . i n d e s i g n i n g e x p e r t and c o n s u l t i n g sys tems or i n t h e a r e a...

Impairment of social functioning has been considered characteristic of schizophrenia. According to current studies, poor social functioning is a prodromal and residual feature of schizophrenia, and people with schizophrenia who have poor social functioning are more vulnerable to relapses and a poor outcome. Social cognitive problem solving (SCPS) has been hypothesized to be related to social fu...

Most multitasking models make use of executive processes to assign resources to tasks (Kieras et al., 2000). An alternative is to have no executive, but constrain individual processes so that they share resources in a plausible way. Salvucci and Taatgen (under revision) in their theory of threaded cognition have shown how peripheral resources and declarative memory are shared between processes ...

Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery wa...

This study examined the cognitive processes in interpretation through employing Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) among Iranian translators. The participants included 10 professional and nonprofessional translators selected through Nelson Proficiency Test. TAP and retrospective interview were used as the major instruments in order to collect the data from self-reports protocols. In order to assess t...

The τέχνη method is an approach to undergraduate computer science education that is based on cognitive constructivisim, in the sense of Piaget, and which invokes several course design directives that include re-combining art and science, problem-based learning, problem selection from the visual problem domain, and cognitive apprenticeship. The paper describes a new τέχνη course in data structur...

this study aimedat investigating the difference between male and female iranian upper-intermediate efl learners in terms of critical thinking, meta-cognitive awareness listening strategies, and selection of meta- cognitive listening strategies. to this end, one hundred and fifty language learners (including males and females with average age of 26.5) were selected through homogenised process to...