the present study aimed to examine throwing accuracy and spatial and digit working memory of field dependent-independent participants. the group embedded figure test (geft) was distributed among 320 male students and based on the geft scores, 45 participants were randomly divided into field dependent, field independent and control group (15 participants/each group). the study included two tasks...

Both academic and practitioner endeavors aim to improve idea generation for individuals and groups. However, administering studies to study group brainstorming is difficult due to measurement, task choice, and logistics. A big question concerning group brainstorming is, What factors affect efficiency? To answer this question, we built a multi-agent model. The results of this inquiry point to in...

In this paper, we present a declarative formalism for writing rule sets to convert constituent trees into dependency graphs. The formalism is designed to be independent of the annotation scheme and provides a highly task-related syntax, abstracting away from the underlying graph data structures. We have implemented the formalism in our search tool and used a preliminary version to create a rule...

Writing is a complex task that requires the integration of multiple cognitive, linguistic, and motor abilities. Until now, only a few studies investigated writing abilities in individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID). The aim of the present exploratory study was to provide knowledge on the organization of writing in two populations with ID, Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS), tr...

Qiang Huang and Stephen Cox∗ School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K. [email protected] Abstract Call-routing is the technology of automatically classifying the type of a telephone call from a customer to a business or an institution in order to transmit the call onward to the correct “destination”. Making transcriptions of calls to provide training data fo...

Implementing a model transformation is a very complex task and in an MDA process, chains of model transformations are usually built. When writing such a transformation chain, developers often need to have information on the previously applied transformations. Thus, disposing of a traceability framework enabling to gather information on the transformation behavior is an important feature for a t...

As an important and a challenging source-based writing task, synthesizing offers rich opportunities to explore the connections between reading and writing. In this article, we report findings from a qualitative study of two Chinese students’ learning experiences with academic synthesis writing in a university ESL composition course. Specifically, we discuss how the two students’ understanding o...

The dual-task paradigm recently played a major role in understanding the role of working memory in writing. By reviewing recent findings in this field of research, this article highlights how the use of the dual-task technique allowed studying the processing and short-term storage functions of working memory involved in writing. With respect to processing functions of working memory (namely, at...