Effective evaluation of educational software is a key issue for successful introduction of advanced tools in the curriculum. This paper focuses on our experience of developing and evaluating a tool for computer-assisted teaching of engineering laboratory courses. Various categories of educational software that can be used for laboratory courses are described. An example of such experimental sys...

Joint independent component analysis (jICA) can be applied within subject for fusion of multi-channel event-related potentials (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to measure brain function at high spatiotemporal resolution (Mangalathu-Arumana et al., 2012). However, the impact of experimental design choices on jICA performance has not been systematically studied. Here, the s...

1 NSContrast:Interface for Contrasting Multiple News Site Today, there is access to large numbers of news sites in different countries, and there are several experimental systems that integrate news articles about a particular event from multiple news sites. These systems enable a good understanding of particular events by using multiple news sites, but they ignore the characteristics of the va...

Infants' phonological acquisition during the first 18 months of life has been some 30 years. Current research themes include statistical learning mechanisms, early lexical development, and models of phonetic category perception. So far, linguistic theories have hardly been taken into account. These theories are based upon the assumption that there is a common core of innate phonological knowled...

This paper examines the stability of the exible-object impedance controller when coupled to an arbitrary passive environment. A simple representative system is developed to study the problem based on phenomena observed in a more complex, experimental system. Analysis of this representative system leads to several conclusions regarding factors that limit the achievable impedances of a multi-arm ...

We investigated whether the alignment effect (Levine et al, 1982 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 111 157-175) is influenced by mental rotation abilities. In two experiments, groups of undergraduate students with high and low performance in mental rotation tasks were required to study either schematic (experiment 1) or more complex (experiment 2) maps, and to perform a number of poin...

This he considered "rather a grim discovery", but he tried to improve the situation by writing a textbook that would spell out for students the nature of what he called "Psychology's Scientific Endeavor". In doing so he joined the ranks of contributors to a distinct genre, one that is just about as old as experimental psychology itself. The first methodological text was published by Wilhelm Wun...

This paper overviews the problem of automated generation of assessment test items from natural-language text. In a previously published article, an experimental system aimed at generating fill-in-theblank test items from Russian text was decribed. In this paper, some aspects of the system’s quality are analyzed. Main directions for future work are defined, including evaluation of the system and...