Feature Based Modelling uses attribute value machine learning techniques to model the relationships between the cognitive system’s inputs and outputs. This paper describes techniques that have been developed for creating these models and for extracting key information therefrom. An overview is provided of studies that have evaluated the application of feature based modelling in a number of educ...

Musical education has a beneficial effect on higher cognitive functions, but questions arise whether associations between music lessons and cognitive abilities are specific to a domain or general. We tested 194 boys in Grade 3 by measuring reading and spelling performance, non verbal intelligence and asked parents about musical activities since preschool. Questionnaire data showed that 53% of t...

Five musical savants with congenital blindness, seven musicians and seven non-musicians with good vision and normal intelligence took part in two experiments. In the first, participants reproduced note strings varying in length and key; in the second, participants learnt associations between four pitches and four objects using a non-verbal paradigm. In the first experiment, the savants and musi...

The field of behaviour-based artificial intelligence (AI), with its roots in the robotics research of Rodney Brooks, is not predominantly tied to linguistic interaction in the sense of the classic Turing test (or, “imitation game”). Yet, it is worth noting, both are centred on a behavioural model of intelligence. Similarly, there is no intrinsic connection between musical AI and the language-ba...

The second half of the twentieth century can be called the age of individualization when individual values and differences are recognized and respected. Intelligence is among the various aspects of individual differences which affect education and language learning. As such, the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between Multiple Intelligence and Reading Comprehension Abiliti...

two hundred and fifty-eight iranian university students estimated their own, parents', and partners' overall (general) intelligence, and also estimated 13 'multiple intelligences' on a simple, two-page questionnaire which was previously used in many similar studies. in accordance with previous research, men rated themselves higher than women on logical-mathematical, spatial and musical intellig...