The aim of the current study was to compare the influence of on-line planning and pre-task planning on the performance of EFL university students enjoying different levels of proficiency regarding accuracy, fluency and complexity. To this end a group of 134 EFL learners with different proficiency levels were asked to write narrative tasks under two planning conditions (Pre-task planning and on-...

Surface frequency and proficiency modulate visual morphological processing in second language (L2) learners, but less is known about auditory processing. Moreover, working memory (WM) affects morphosyntactic processing, it unclear whether also modulates word structure In the present study, Spanish monolinguals beginner advanced L2 learners of completed an lexical decision task containing verbs ...

cognitive deficits such as impairments in attention, memory, information processing and executive functioning can be found in some parkinson's disease (pd) patients. recent studies suggested that pd drivers generally performed poorer than their healthy age-matched controls with regards to their cognitive and motor abilities during the psychometric testing. according to michon’s model of ca...

A study was conducted to determine if leaders with high cognitive complexity scores had better performance and manifest different behavior than leaders with low complexity scores. The results Indicated that the performance of groups with high complexity leaders was significantly better than groups with low complexity leaders. No specific behavioral differences were found, but high complexity le...

this study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. forty learners in an english institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the oxford placement test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...

This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of young male high school graduates. The objective task complexity measurement from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles enables a more direct look into primitive skills of workers. Through characterizing a worker’s optimal occupational choice, I show that the task ...

background: cognitive impairment profoundly influences on older adults’ activities and quality of life. therefore, optimizing and remediating age-associated cognitive decline have great importance. objectives: to evaluate the effect of 8 weeks (3 day /week) computer based brain training on cognitive performance in old women with mild cognitive impairment (mci). materials and methods: this rando...

This chapter surveys the use of logic and computational complexity theory in cognitive science. We emphasize in particular the role played by logic in bridging the gaps between Marr’s three levels: representation theorems for non-monotonic logics resolve algorithmic/implementation debates, while complexity theory probes the relationship between computational task analysis and algorithms. We arg...