The useful-field-of-view (UFOV) test measures the amount of information someone can extract from a visual scene in one glance. Its scores show relatively strong relationships with everyday activities. The UFOV test consists of three computer tests, suggested to measure processing speed and central vision, divided attention, and selective attention. However, other functions seem to be involved a...

Normal Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)-IV performance relative to average normative scores alone can be an oversimplification as this fails to recognize disparate subtest heterogeneity that occurs with increasing age. The purpose of the present study is to characterize the patterns of raw score change and associated variability on WAIS-IV subtests across age groupings. Raw WAIS-IV subt...

The Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (Carrow-Woolfolk, 1999a) is a norm-referenced, individually administered test designed to measure expressive, receptive, and retrieval skills in oral language. It contains 15 subtests that assess four categories of spoken language: lexical/ semantic, syntactic, supralinguistic, and pragmatic. Subtests are categorized as core, supplementary, or not...

A battery of tests for measuring linguistic competence has been constructed. The battery consists often subtests. After validation and initial trial the tests were modified and then administered in two tryouts to schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Test retest reliability was established in both patients and normals. In the patient group picture arrangement (story) and definitions subte...

Cortical lesion patients were tested on the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) in the post-acute phase (median > or = 1 month) to determine the degree of sensitivity and specificity of the CAS subtests to neuropsychological impairment. Nonparametric ANOVA and subsequent Mann-Whitney statistics were used. Demographic variables of age, education, handedness, sex were controlled for Matching Number...

Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of the English language. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of Iranian students in dealing with three broad cat...

[Purpose] This study aimed to confirm the specialization of interlimb transfer in occupationally embedded tasks between dominant and non-dominant hands. [Subjects] Twelve neurologically intact participants were recruited. [Methods] The participants were divided into two training groups and performed training with their dominant or non-dominant hand. Three subtests of the Jebsen-Taylor Hand Func...

We administered the Verbal IQ (VIQ) part of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-III) to the ConceptNet 4 AI system. The test questions (e.g., “Why do we shake hands?”) were translated into ConceptNet 4 inputs using a combination of the simple natural language processing tools that come with ConceptNet together with short Python programs that we wrote. The question an...

This study empirically evaluates the psychometric properties of a new mother-answered developmental instrument for toddlers, the Toddler Language and Motor Questionnaire (TLMQ). Mothers of 1132 15- to 38-month-old children filled out a 144-item instrument, tapping the toddlers' competences in five language and motor subtests. Concurrent validity was investigated in an independent sample by admi...