Twin studies indicate that both intelligence and brain structure are moderately to highly heritable. Recent bivariate studies of adult twins also suggest that intelligence and brain morphometry are influenced by shared genetic factors. The current study examines shared genetic and environmental factors between brain morphometry and intelligence in a sample of children and adolescents (twins, tw...

Currently the BuTreeBank comprises 214 000 tokens, a little more than 15 000 sentences. Each token is annotated with morphosyntactic information. Additionally the Named Entities are annotated with ontological classes as person, organization, location, and other. Based on HPSG theory the annotation scheme defines a number of phrase types which reflect both the constituent structure and the head-...

Human behavior is, amongst others, influenced by cultural background. Thus research on virtual characters that should imitate human behavior, considers cultural background to influence the behavior of agents as well. This paper presents a hybrid approach of modeling culture-specific non-verbal behaviors for virtual character dialogues based on both: theoretical knowledge and empirical data. A B...

Verbal short-term memory (STM) impairment is one of the most consistent associated deficits observed in developmental reading disorders such as dyslexia. Few studies have addressed the nature of this STM impairment, especially as regards the ability to temporarily store serial order information. This question is important as studies in typically developing children have shown that serial order ...

To investigate the number of correct responses, the reaction time and the event-related brain potentials, effects of positive and negative verbal reinforcement on the visuo-spatial recognition of simple geometric figures, in condition of backward masking, were studied in healthy subjects and patients with chronic alcoholism. It was found that in performing the mental construction of geometrical...

We have been conducting large-scale public experiments with artificial robotic agents to explore what the necessary and sufficient prerequisites are for word-meaning pairs to evolve autonomously in a population of agents through a self-organized process. We focus not so much on the question of why language has evolved but rather on how. There are many good reasons to use language once it has co...

This paper describes recent studies that have evaluated the functional independence of verbal operants. Procedures that facilitate the emergence of untrained verbal operants and important areas of future research to increase efficiency of language programs for children diagnosed with developmental disabilities are discussed.

The experiments reported by Le Corre and Carey were designed to test a form of the analog mapping hypothesis, but not to test the hypothesis advanced by Gallistel and Gelman (1992). Our hypothesis is that very early in the prolonged process of learning verbal counting children recognize that the structure and function of verbal counting are the same as the structure and function of their pre-ve...