objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...

Research on concept learning in educational settings has traditionally been conducted in the Piaget-inspired cognitive conflict paradigm in which students’ naïve conceptualizations are confronted with anomalous data or contradicting views or are paired with peers who have different views (socio-cognitive conflict). Inducing conceptual change has been extensively shown to be a hard goal to achie...

Many practical, real-life applications of concept learning are impossible to address without taking into consideration the background of the concept, its frame of reference, and the particual situation and circumstances of its occurence, shortly its context. Even though the phenomenon of context has been treated by philosophers and cognitive scientists , it deserves more attention in the machin...

Introduction: Regarding the neurofeedback training process, previous studies indicate that 10%-50% of subjects cannot gain control over their brain activity even after repeated training sessions. This study is conducted to overcome this problem by investigating inter-individual differences in neurofeedback learning to propose some predictors for the trainability of subjects. Methods: Eight hea...

Mobile learning is cognitively demanding and frequently the ubiquitous nature of mobile computing means that mobile devices are used in cognitively demanding environments. This paper examines the use of mobile devices from a Learning, Usability and Cognitive Load Theory perspective. It suggests scenarios where these fields interact and presents an experiment which determined that several source...

We are striving to create cognitive models that produce veridical human behavior for complex tasks in real time. This paper details the application of an existing model of human category learning, Symbolic Concept Acquisition, to model category learning within a complex, real-time, perceptual-motor task. The chief modeling challenge was quantitatively matching human data within the constraints ...

Several antiviral drugs have been approved for treating HIV infected patients. These drugs inhibit the function of proteins which are essential in the virus life cycle, thus preventing the virus reproduction. However, due to its high mutation rate the HIV is capable to develop resistance to administered therapy. For this reason, it is important to study the resistance mechanisms of the HIV prot...