BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A number of studies have associated the adult intelligence quotient with the structure and function of the bilateral parieto-frontal networks, whereas the relationship between intelligence quotient and parieto-frontal network function has been found to be relatively weak in early childhood. Because both human intelligence and brain function undergo protracted development ...

One of the major problems in the real time decision of agricultural intelligence expert system is how to be obtained the real time information of crops growth and its close relation environment data. As result the extraction of crops planting areas and their spatial distribution and their growth variety, especially when the natural disaster arises, such as drought, its spatial distribution and ...

Cognitive neuroscience has long sought to understand the biological foundations of human intelligence. Decades of research have revealed that general intelligence is correlated with two brain-based biomarkers: the concentration of the brain biochemical N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) measured by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and total brain volume measured using structural MR imaging (M...

Previous studies have reported numerous correlations between psychopathy and various personality traits, behavioural tendencies or clinical characteristics. The present study examined in greater depth the relationships between the components of psychopathy as measured by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and intelligence as well as impulsivity. A total of ninety male violent offenders w...

This year ́s Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC ‘08) continued a successful series of international and interdisciplinary conferences on spatial cognition held in Germany. SC’08 was organized by the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition in cooperation with the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC). SC‘08 took place at Schloss Reinach, an estate near Freiburg im ...

This study examined the relationships between self-perceived multiple intelligences and areas of intelligencerelated activities among 592 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students perceived their strengths in interpersonal, intrapersonal, and verbal-linguistic intelligences, and their weaknesses in bodilykinaesthetic and naturalist intelligences. They also indicated that they engaged...

Swarms of microscopic organisms are well known in nature and have been shown to exhibit many unexpected collective behaviours. We model a swarm of artificial animats in a model where microscopic predator prey behaviours give rise to emergent macroscopic spatial phenomena. Animats with very simple local rules can be shown to exhibit a collective swarm response that can potentially be linked to s...

Emotions are acknowledged as a crucial element for artificial intelligence; this is, as is illustrated, no different for Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Unobtrusive Sensing of Emotions (USE) is introduced to enrich AmI with empathic abilities. USE coins the combination of speech and the electrocardiogram (ECG) as a powerful and unique combination to unravel people’s emotions. In a controlled study,...

The capability to predict changes of spatial regions is important for an intelligent system that interacts with the physical world. For example, in a disaster management scenario, predicting potentially endangered areas and inferring safe zones is essential for planning evacuations and countermeasures. Existing approaches usually predict such spatial changes by simulating the physical world bas...