normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa back ground: considering the high prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism (ch) in isfahan, the intelligence quotient (iq) of children with ch and the effect of diagnostic and treatment variables on it were investigated during the ch screening program. materials and methods: a total of 120 children in three studied groups were studied in this compara...

Predicting Student Performance in Verbal Math Problems Based on Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Affective Factors F. Karimi, Ph.D. A.R. Moraadi, Ph.D. P. Kadivar, Ph.D. R. Kormi Noori, Ph.D. To determine the predictive role of metacognitive, cognitive, and affective factors in solving verbal math problems, a cluster sample of 450 junior high school  students was given ...

The goal of the present study was to examine the precursors of verbal working memory in 52 children with cerebral palsy with varying degrees of speech impairments in the first grade of special education. Following Baddeley's model of working memory, children's verbal working memory was measured by means of a forced-recognition task. As precursors of verbal working memory, measures of intelligen...

BACKGROUND In neuropsychiatric diseases with basal ganglia involvement, higher cognitive functions are often impaired. In this exploratory study, we examined healthy young adults to gain detailed insight into the relationship between basal ganglia volume and cognitive abilities under non-pathological conditions. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We investigated 137 healthy adults that were betwe...

Article history: Received 6 May 2009 Received in revised form 11 August 2009 Accepted 17 August 2009 Available online 9 September 2009 Recently, different methodological approaches have been discussed as an explanation for inconsistencies in studies investigating sex differences in different intelligences. The present study investigates sex differences in manifest sum scores, factor score estim...

The relation between early fantasy/pretense and children's knowledge about mental life was examined in a study of 152 3- and 4-year-old boys and girls. Children were interviewed about their fantasy lives (e.g., imaginary companions, impersonation of imagined characters) and were given tasks assessing their level of pretend play and verbal intelligence. In a second session 1 week later, children...

This paper analyses and compares term weighting methods for automatic verbal intelligence identification from speech. Two different corpora are used; the first one contains monologues on the same topic; the second one contains dialogues between two or three people. The problem is described as a text classification task with two classes: low and high verbal intelligence. Seven different term wei...

Two studies examined the interactive eVect of receptive verbal intelligence measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and self-regulatory competencies measured in the delay of gratiWcation paradigm on boys’ aggression. Study 1 participants (ND 98) were middle school, low-income boys primarily ethnic minority. Participants for Study 2 (ND 59) were drawn from a treatment camp for boys from ...

The  major  aim  of  this  paper  was  to  investigate  the  validity  of  language  and intelligence  factors  for  classifying  Iranian  English  learners`  writing  performance. Iranian  participants  of  the  study  took  three  tests  for  grammar,  breadth,  and  depth  of vocabulary, and two tests for verbal and narrative intelligence. They also produced a corpus  of  argumentative  writ...