This paper presents an environment that supports the production of instructions, exploiting methodologies and technologies from Human-Computer-Interaction, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering. In this environment, instructions are automatically generated from task models. The environment includes an interactive tool to build task models, an extensible set of knowledge acquisiti...

The prefrontal cortex is involved in acquiring and maintaining information about context, including the set of task instructions and/or the outcome of previous stimulus-response sequences. Most studies on context-dependent processing in the prefrontal cortex have been concerned with such executive functions, but the prefrontal cortex is also involved in motivational operations. We thus wished t...

Airport and border security personnel are working to improve security practices and preparedness to prevent acts of terrorism. While they must guard against false positives that result in needless delays for travelers, they must also balance those against the grave costs of missing a threat. In support of a study investigating individual differences in vigilance tasks, the authors have develope...

There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this question, the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of mindfulness training on executive control and emotion regulation in older adults, by means of studying behavioral and electrophysiological ch...

The Clock Drawing Test is sensitive to early cognitive changes, simple to. . MiniCog. Montreal Cognitive Assessment. (MoCA). Saint Louis University Mental. .. Cog.pdf ) includes the clockdrawing task and a. .. Spanish-speaking elderly. Administration and scoring instructions available at www.mocatest.org (English, French, Dutch & Spanish). Guidelines & Protocols Advisory Committee. Montreal . O...

abstract background: ethics was discussed for many years in medical ethics through rules, theories, hypothesis and religious. there are some organs in iran that working on ethics. department of medical science is one of them that has his own instructions on ethics. this study aims to review some of the challengeable issues in medicine. conclusion: department of ethics in iranian academy of medi...

Study of human executive function focuses on our ability to represent cognitive rules independently of stimulus or response modality. However, recent findings suggest that executive functions cannot be modularized separately from perceptual and motor systems, and that they instead scaffold on top of motor action selection. Here we investigate whether patterns of motor demands influence how part...

Listening to speech in noise depletes cognitive resources, affecting speech processing. The present study investigated how remaining resources or cognitive spare capacity (CSC) can be deployed by young adults with normal hearing. We administered a test of CSC (CSCT; Mishra et al., 2013) along with a battery of established cognitive tests to 20 participants with normal hearing. In the CSCT, list...

The WTO has significantly engaged with Indian law in at least three contexts covering covered agreements. In the first case, executive’s instructions were not accepted as corroborative of India’s compliance on ground that these created “a certain degree legal insecurity” and devoid “sound basis” under law. On second occasion, did accept impact statement an official Statutory Order evidence obli...