Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning would be notable only if the benefits apply reliably to nonmusical abilities and if music is unique in producing the effects. The available evidence indicates that music listening leads to enhanced performance on a variety...

ment do not reach the university, ninety per cent do not finish the high school and sixty-five per cent do not complete the elementary grades constitutes conclusive evidence that our existing scheme of presentation is satisfying only an exceedingly small group. Economic consideration of the individual and the training necessary to enable him "to be worth his keep," demand that we ascertain very...

Added 27 Jul 2014] Many researchers work on systems that learn. Different sorts of things can be learnt, including abilities of many kinds, and applications of those abilities. Learnable abilities include (in no significant order): abilities to label, abilities to describe, abilities to predict, abilities to manipulate directly or to control indirectly, abilities to perform actions of varying c...

BACKGROUND Chinese medicine has been proposed as a novel strategy for the prevention of metabolic disorders such as obesity. The present study tested 17 Chinese medicinal herbs were tested for their potential anti-obesity effects. METHODS The herbs were evaluated in terms of their abilities to stimulate the transcription of Apolipoprotein A-IV (ApoA-IV) in cultured Caco-2/TC7 enterocytes. The...

The present study aimed to investigate heating-induced alterations of breast cancer cell invasion abilities and the potential mechanisms associated with TGF-β1 expression. MCF-7 cells were heated at 43, 45, 47 and 37 °C for 30 min. In vitro cell invasion ability was evaluated by matrigel invasion assay. The activity of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2/9 was investigated by gelatin zymographic a...

Most computationally creative systems lack adequate means of perceptually evaluating the artifacts they produce and are therefore not fully grounded in real world understanding. We argue that perceptually grounding such systems will increase their creative potential. Having adequate perceptual abilities can enable computational systems to be more autonomous, learn better internal models, evalua...

Assistive technology (AT) has the potential to improve the functional abilities of individuals with severe physical disabilities. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have gained interest for this purpose due to their ability to be used by individuals with no motor abilities. This paper describes the ethical and practical issues our research team encountered while researching the usability of a BCI-...

T he practice of nonverbal communication relies on a range of innate and developed foundational processes. One foundation underlying the use of nonverbal communication focuses on individual differences in the abilities to communicate nonverbally. This ability, or skill, approach is akin to a personality perspective in that it focuses on individual differences in the sending (encoding), receivin...

This paper discusses the difficulties of measuring modeling abilities within examinations. Modeling abilities are inherently difficult to measure since they imply cognitive processes that may not become evident in the result of a written examination. In addition, for a given problem there exists a wide variety of valid models that may just differ in the employed modeling language, technique, or...

Introduction We can learn a lot by studying the development of object perception and recognition. For example, creating a developmental timeline of perceptual abilities can help to show which tasks are most easily learned and performed. In turn, this ordering can be used to break a complex perception task into a series of simpler components. Studies often reveal impressive perceptual skills in ...