Children’s decision-making is complex. There are many factors that contribute to children’s decisional capacity including cognitive reasoning, developmental maturity, upbringing and circumstances. For healthcare decisions, Australian law acknowledges autonomy, permits mature children consent beneficial healthcare. Yet, it also protects them from making life-changing decisions could contravene t...

Cognitive linguistics has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Unfortunately, most current models of deep language processing incorporate assumptions from generative grammar that are at odds with the cognitive movement in linguistics. This demonstration shows how Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), a fully operational and b...

It is not currently possible to measure the real-world thought process that a child has while observing an actual school lesson. However, if it could be done, children's neural processes would presumably be predictive of what they know. Such neural measures would shed new light on children's real-world thought. Toward that goal, this study examines neural processes that are evoked naturalistica...

This article reports on a study investigating the career development of hard-of-hearing high school students attending regular classes with itinerant teacher support. We compared 65 hard-of-hearing students with a matched group of normally hearing peers on measures of career maturity, career indecision, perceived career barriers, and three variables associated with social cognitive career theor...

Anna E. Bobkowska Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland [email protected] Abstract In order to achieve more maturity in modelling languages engineering, effective methods of visual modelling language evaluation are required. There is growing understanding of human factors’ impact on the quality of results and thus cognitive perspective seems to be a good frame of reference for evaluation. In...

This article analyzes the territory in which battle of strategic narratives is fought—the cognitive domain—and nature itself—cognitive warfare. It exposes three asymmetries between United Kingdom, Russia and China. These are: (1) maturity warfare doctrine; (2) ease with can be waged vice defended against; (3) that illiberal states enjoy greater freedom maneuver domain than their liberal competi...