0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.01.012 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of P Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.C. The effectiveness of a game-based cognitive training intervention on multiple abilities was assessed in a sample of 39 older adults aged 60–77. The intervention task was ...

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Two experiments examined the effects of interactive tutorial features (compared to “passive” features) on learning spatial tasks, an area seldom explored in interactivity research. Experiment 1 results indicated that for simple spatial tasks, interactive tutorials hindered learning for participants of higher spatial ability but improved learning for lower-ability participants. This interaction ...

In this paper, the possibilities of using visual and textual information are investigated to improve the ranking of photos from Flickr about famous places. We have elaborated improved textual features based on standard ones and visual features e.g. face feature for measure the relative face area on the images. These heuristic features have been used for the solution in the MediaEval 2013 Retrie...

This experimental study examined the relationship between pretend play and false-belief. Eighteen-month-old children engaged in pretend play with an experimenter using various controlled behaviors and performed a false-belief task. The results showed that the children who understood pretend play performed better on the false-belief task. This suggests that pretended play and false-belief are re...

This paper describes the third participation of IR-n system at CLEF-2003. Two previous participation are focused on Spanish monolingual task. This year, we participated in three different tasks: multilingual task (four languages), bilingual task (Italian-Spanish) and monolingual task (Spanish, German, French, Italian). This paper describes the experiments carried out as training process in orde...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in the most popular ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) exam preparation courses in Iran: IELTS, TOEFL, FCE and CAE. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, 114 learner participants were asked to rate EFL writing tasks based on a checkl...

There is substantial debate over the mental representation of regular past tense forms in both first language (L1) and second language (L2) processing. Specifically, the controversy revolves around the nature of morphologically complex forms such as the past tense –ed in English and how morphological structures of such forms are represented in the mental lexicon. This study focuses on the resul...