An attempt was made to duplicate Rosvold and Mishkin's finding of clear differentiation between groups, using a modified Yerkes Multiple-Choice Test with 23 lobotomized and 22 unlobotomized schizophrenics for whom scores were available on 10-factored aptitude tests and 2 Wechsler-Bellevue scales. Though marked intergroup differences appeared on the aptitude tests, none appeared on the Yerkes te...

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Third Edition (D. Wechsler, 1991; WISC-III) is often used to identify subtest-based cognitive strengths and weaknesses that are subsequently used to generate interventions. Given that intelligence is presumed to be an enduring trait, cognitive strengths and weaknesses identified via subtest analysis should also be stable over time. This was evaluate...

Unilateral electroconvulsive therapy was given to 32 right-handed patients for relief of depression. Sixteen patients received electrode placement on the right side for the first treatment and on the left side for the second treatment. For the other 16 patients the order of sides was reversed. The word Associate Learning subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale was administered about 20 minutes aft...

Nine patients who were admitted to Purdysburn Hospital with a clinical diagnosis of Korsakoff's psychosis were subjected to a series of psychometric tests, to electroencephalography (including P3 auditory evoked potential) and to computerised axial tomography. When compared with controls, the experimental group differed significantly in their psychometric scores in all but the comprehension, vo...

THE Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children has grown logically out of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scales used with adolescents and adults [4]. In fact, most of the items in the WISC are from Form II of the earlier scales, the main additions being new items at the easier end of each test to permit examination of children as young as five years of age. Even though the materials overlap, ...

Twenty-five male stroke patients were assessed with the use of a battery of perceptual tests (Gross Visual Skills [Baum, 1981]. Adult Visual-Perceptual Assessment [Baylor University Medical Center, Occupational Therapy Department, 1980], Manikin and Feature Profile subtests of the Arthur Point Scale of Performance Tests [Arthur, 1943; Buros, 1974, 1978], Judgment of Line Orientation [Benton, Va...

BACKGROUND The neurobiology of social dysfunction in schizophrenia is unknown, but smell identification deficits (SIDs) exist in schizophrenia, and olfaction is related to social affiliation in other mammals. The SIDs have been linked with negative symptoms and the deficit syndrome, but any specificity of SIDs for social dysfunction is unstudied. Low intelligence might explain this relationship...

This paper addresses issues related to generating feedback messages to errors related to Arabic verbs made by second language learners (SLLs). The proposed approach allows for individualization. When a SLL of Arabic writes a wrong verb, it performs analysis of the input and distinguishes between different lexical error types. The proposed system issues the intelligent feedback that conforms to ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to characterise the association between the cognitive profile and weight restoration in children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa. METHODS The study was a longitudinal, matched case-control, multicentre study. An assessment of cognitive functions was conducted by using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III/the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Sca...

Long-term stability of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; Wechsler, 2003) was investigated with a sample of 344 students from 2 school districts twice evaluated for special education eligibility at an average interval of 2.84 years. Test-retest reliability coefficients for the Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI), Working Memory I...