A wide range of abilities was assessed in 56 high-functioning children with autism and 56 age- and IQ-matched controls. Stepwise discriminant analyses produced good group discrimination for sensory-perceptual, motor, complex language, and complex memory domains but lower agreement for the reasoning domain than previously obtained for adults. Group discrimination did not occur for attention, sim...

A well-understood reason for component-based software engineering (CBSE) is improved productivity. CBSE is also important for another basic reason. It enables compositional or modular reasoning, and therefore, it facilitates production of high quality systems. In compositional reasoning, it is possible to reason about the behavior of the system using the behavioral specifications of reused comp...

Neural correlate of human inductive reasoning process is still unclear. Number series and letter series completion are two typical inductive reasoning tasks, and with a common core component of rule induction. Previous studies have demonstrated that different strategies are adopted in number series and letter series completion tasks; even the underlying rules are identical. In the present study...

Designing a task with a reasonable level of cognitive complexity has always been important for syllabus designers, teachers, as well as researchers. This is because task manipulation may lead to different results in oral production. The present study was an attempt to explore the effect of this  manipulation  -  based  on  Robinson’s  resource-directing  model  (reasoning  demands, number of el...

Veterinary medicine is an ethically challenging profession, but the ethical reasoning abilities of practising veterinarians in the UK have never been formally assessed. This study investigated moral reasoning ability in 65 qualified veterinarians (38 practising and 27 academic) and 33 members of the public in the UK using the Defining Issues Test. Academic veterinarians had higher scores than m...

Abstract This chapter introduces the reader to fundamentals and reasoning for exploring fusion energy. Fusion, reaction of two hydrogen atoms colliding, is process that powers Sun stars. Fusion works by turning small amounts matter into vast If realized on Earth, nuclear could solve global energy demands generations come.

Neuropsychological studies highlight the importance of the prefrontal cortex in abstract reasoning ability. The prefrontal cortex is anatomically connected to the basal ganglia through a series of parallel loops. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex shares relatively greater connectivity with the caudate head, and it has been proposed that the caudate head may be more sensitive to executive proce...

We conducted an event-related, functional MRI investigation of 12 male's and 12 female's reasoning about conditional deontic rules, rules regulating people's behavior. We employed two different types of rules: social contracts and nonsocial, precautionary rules. Although the rules and the demands of the task were matched in terms of their logical structure, reasoning about social contracts and ...

Brain activation was examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging during mathematical problem solving in 7 young healthy participants. Problems were selected from the Necessary Arithmetic Operations Test (NAOT; R. B. Ekstrom, J. W. French, H. H. Harman, & D. Dermen, 1976). Participants solved 3 types of problems: 2-operation problems requiring mathematical reasoning and text processing,...

In this study, we focus on the possible roles of second-order syntactic recursion and working memory in terms of simple and complex span tasks in the development of second-order false belief reasoning. We tested 89 Turkish children in two age groups, one younger (4;6– 6;5 years) and one older (6;7–8;10 years). Although second-order syntactic recursion is significantly correlated with the second...