BACKGROUND the working memory is a cognitive skill that contributes to adequate development of language and to the acquisition of reading and writing. A consistent evaluation of the working memory in pre-school and basic school children demonstrates to be important for the early identification of possible learning impairments. AIM to evaluate the development of working memory along the first ...

The present study examined the relations between preschoolers' television exposure and executive functions (EF). One hundred and nineteen 3- to 6-year-old children and their parents participated. Parents filled in a questionnaire regarding children's television viewing time, television content and parental mediation behaviors about their child's television viewing. The children were asked to fi...

Aspect-oriented Fine-grained Opinion Extraction (AFOE) aims to extract the aspect terms, corresponding opinion terms and sentiment polarity in a target sentence. Most previous methods treat AFOE as word-level or span-level task, which ignore complementarity of these two tasks. To integrate merits information, we construct an end-to-end Span-based Multi-Table Labeling (SpanMTL) framework. SpanMT...

Span program is a linear-algebraic model of computation which can be used to design quantum algorithms. For any Boolean function there exists a span program that leads to a quantum algorithm with optimal quantum query complexity. In general, finding such span programs is not an easy task. In this work, given a query access to the adjacency matrix of a simple graph G with n vertices, we provide ...

The SemEval 2016 DiMSUM Shared Task concerns the detection of minimal semantic units from text and prediction of their coarse lexical categories known as supersenses. Our approach is to define this task as a binary classification problem approachable by straightforward machine learning methods. We start by detecting semantic units by matching text spans against several large dictionaries, inclu...

Humans with seven or more repeats in exon III of the DRD4 gene (long DRD4 carriers) sometimes demonstrate impaired attention, as seen in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and at other times demonstrate heightened attention, as seen in addictive behavior. Although the clinical effects of DRD4 are the focus of much work, this gene may not necessarily serve as a "risk" gene for attentional...

Objective: Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between coherence and cognitive processes. This study aims at investigating this hypothesis through assessing the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in the discourse of two groups of Persian-speaking younger and older adults. Methods: In order to evaluate our participants' cognitive capabilities, we recrui...

Language and music were once considered completely separate systems, located in the left and right hemispheres of the brain, respectively. However, recent evidence from neuroimaging and behavioral studies has suggested that music and language may be closely linked. For example, syntactic processing and the processing of harmony may share certain neural resources, and some aspects of speech and ...

To explore whether schizotypal traits may undermine source monitoring for actions, 67 undergraduate participants (21 men) completed the Schizotypal Personality Scale and were then given a source-monitoring task in which some specific acts had to be performed, whereas others only had to be imagined. Next, participants had to complete an old-new recognition task and ascribe the source, i.e., whet...

☆ This work was supported by a grant of The Advancing Safe Transportation throughout the Lifespa G-0058) to MB, a fellowship from the Swiss Nationa (PA001-117473) to SMJ, and a grant from the Office o (N00014-09-0213). Study 2 was conducted as a part with the guidance of the other co-authors and wit University of Bern and the National Taiwan Normal U wish to thank Chao-Yi Ho and Philip Cheng fo...