The complexity of software systems makes design reuse a necessary task in the software development process. CASE tools can provide cognitive assistance in this task, helping the software engineers to select designs to be reused. In this paper, we propose an approach for case indexing and retrieval based on Bayesian Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and WordNet. This approach is integrated in a CAS...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics using complexity analysis in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with healthy control children when performing a cognitive task. METHOD Thirty 7-12-year-old children meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria for ADHD and 3...

Abstract Our technologies have never ceased to evolve, allowing our lineage expand its habitat all over the Earth, and even explore space. This phenomenon, called cumulative technological culture (CTC), has been studied extensively, notably using mathematical computational models. However, cognitive capacities needed for emergence maintenance of CTC remain largely unknown. In literature, focus ...

PURPOSE To determine whether phonological processing in adults who stutter (AWS) is disrupted by increased amounts of cognitive load in a concurrent attention-demanding task. METHOD Nine AWS and 9 adults who do not stutter (AWNS) participated. Using a dual-task paradigm, the authors presented word pairs for rhyme judgments and, concurrently, letter strings for memory recall. The rhyme judgmen...

Recent second language (L2) writing research informed by task-based theories of acquisition has enthusiastically adopted task complexity frameworks to describe the specific cognitive demands a given and effect those on written L2 production. However, missing from many studies effects production is discussion genre as potential source complexity. This paper examines resource-dispersing form that...

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 ...