This study focuses on the design and testing of a motivational animated pedagogical agent (APA) in an inquiry learning environment on kinematics. The aim of including the APA was to enhance students’ perceptions of task relevance and selfefficacy. Given the under-representation of girls in science classrooms, special attention was given to designing an APA that would appeal to the female studen...

The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old. This order is intuitive and reflected in many features of academic life, but whether it reflects the "hardness" of scientific research--i.e., the extent to which research questions and results are determined by data and theor...

OBJECTIVE To verify the sensitivity of the conventional subtests of the Behavioral Inattention Test (BIT) in the diagnosis of hemineglect after stroke. METHOD One hundred and two patients with cerebral infarct or hemorrhage were prospectively evaluated. In 22, hemineglect was diagnosed using standard BIT criteria. The frequency of hemineglect using 6 commonly used screening subtests of this b...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether visual evoked magnetic fields (VEFs) elicited by right and left hemifield stimulation differ in patients with unilateral spatial neglect (USN) that results from cerebrovascular accident. METHODS Pattern-reversal stimulation of the right and left hemifield was performed in three patients with left USN. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was recorded using a 160-channel...

In this paper we question one of the paradigms in the behavioural sciences in the last century. We call it the "rationality" paradigm, according to which animal and human behaviour can be understood from the assumption that it is "rational" with respect to reaching a given goal. For instance, animals are assumed to take the best course of action for maximising their reproductive success, and ac...

New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (Northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan) Alexander O. Averianov a,b,∗, J. David Archibald c, Pavel P. Skutschas d, Gareth J. Dyke e,f a Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia b Department of Sedimentary Geology, Geological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg 199178, ...

a Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Department of Clinical-, Neuroand Developmental Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, BT 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands b EMGO Institute for Health Care and Research, VU University Medical Centre, Van der Boechorststraat 1, BT 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands c Department of Psychiatry, GGZ inGeest and VU University Medic...

1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (Correspondence to O.E. El-Rufaie: [email protected]). Received: 05/06/03; accepted: 07/04/04 ABSTRACT There is substantive evidence of significant psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients, mainly in the form of anxiety and depress...