OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between motor skills, exercise capacity and cognitive functions, and evaluate how they correlate to academic performance in mathematics and reading comprehension using standardised, objective tests. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 423 Danish children (age: 9.29±0.35 years, 209 girls). Fine and gross motor skills were evaluated in a visuomotor ...

Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior and Job Attachment Economic analysis has said little about how an individual’s cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual’s preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers we report three...

Limitations of modern artificial intelligence are most evident in comparison with the human ability to selfregulate cognitive and learning processes. Is it possible to model the human self-regulation ability in artifacts? And vice versa, can a computer model of this sort help students to develop self-regulation skills? This work describes a blueprint of an innovative intelligent tutoring system...

The main objective of this study was to use structural equation modeling (SEM) to clarify the relationship between subjective cognitive complaints and neuropsychological functioning in 160 adults with HIV infection. Participants completed questionnaires assessing cognitive complaints, symptoms of depression, and HIV-related medical symptoms. Neuropsychological tests included measures of attenti...

The aim of this study is to analyze the e ectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized eld experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the nal grade of primary school. We focus on pupils' development of relevant skill sets for entrepreneurial activity, both cognitive and non-cognitive. The results indica...

When describing the determinants of economic or social outcomes, economists often focus on cognitive skill. Failure to take into account other dimensions of skill may misguide policy design. In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and non-cognitive (social) skills at age 7, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Study. We find that an o...

aim and background: the main purpose of this study was to review the effectiveness of applied behavioral analysis (aba) approach on symptoms of autistic children during a five-year period. methods and materials: in this quasi-experimental study, 20 autistic children (3-7 years of age) were intervened by aba approach at isfahan center of autism for a period of five years (2007-12). gilliam autis...