Applying for asylum in the United States can be a strenuous process for both applicants and immigration attorneys. Mental health professionals with expertise in asylum law and refugee trauma can make important contributions to such cases. Not only can mental health professionals provide diagnostic information that may support applicants' claims, but they can evaluate how culture and mental heal...

Subjects were presented with signal pairs with different musical intervals. Signals were sine tones, complex tones with a fundamental, and complex tones without a fundamental. Subjects had to decide, which signal pairs form a specific musical interval. Reaction times indicate that the perception of the ‘missing fundamental’ is a sort of musical processing and not necessarily a part of normal au...

According to Howe (2002), humor originates from perceiving the thoughts of the subject of the humor, implying the involvement of perspective-taking or related mental processes. However, how does the ability to infer the mental states of others, or theory of mind (ToM) operate with the comprehension of humor is yet certain. The current research continued to examine this idea using fMRI, hoping t...

We investigated the event-related brain potentials elicited by arithmetical operations whose solution requires direct memory retrieval or non-retrieval strategies. The problem size effect--the increment in reaction time for arithmetical problems with large operands--appears to be due to the selective use of non-retrieval procedures, and studies with event-related potentials have demonstrated an...

Aim of the present study was to identify an appropriate hypertext structure and navigation aids that enhance the comprehensibility of hypertext and support readers in building up a mental representation of the text. It is assumed that hypertext readers construct a content representation for the comprehension of the hypertext and a text structure representation for navigation within the hypertex...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this mental representation and processing of...

This Monograph aims to contribute to the information processing, the differential, and the developmental modeling of the mind, and to work these into an integrated theory. Toward this aim, a longitudinal study is presented that investigates the relations between processing efficiency, working memory, and problem solving from the age of 8 years to to the age of 16 years. The study involved 113 p...

Psychiatry is an area of medicine that strongly bases its diagnoses on the psychiatrists subjective appreciation. The task of diagnosis loosely resembles the common pipelines used in supervised learning schema. Therefore, we propose to augment the psychiatrists diagnosis toolbox with an artificial intelligence system based on natural language processing and machine learning algorithms. This app...

Numerical cognition is a case of multi-modular and distributed cerebral processing. So far neither the anatomo-functional connections between the cortex areas involved nor their integration into established frameworks such as the differentiation between dorsal and ventral processing streams have been specified. The current study addressed this issue combining a re-analysis of previously publish...

Linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence is presented to support the use of structure-mapping theory as a framework for understanding effects of iconicity on sign language grammar and processing. The existence of structured mappings between phonological form and semantic mental representations has been shown to explain the nature of metaphor and pronominal anaphora in sign languages. With respe...