The Dimensional Change Card Sort task measures the development of executive function. Children must switch from sorting cards based on shape or color to sorting by the other dimension. While 4-year-olds can switch rules, 3-year-olds perseverate. Moriguchi and Hiraki (2009) used Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to measure changes in PFC activation (F7/F8) in this task: 3and 5-year-olds who swit...

Epidemiological studies have revealed striking associations between several distinct behavioral/personality traits and drug addiction, with a large emphasis on the sensation-seeking trait and the associated impulsive dimension of personality. However, in human studies, it is difficult to identify whether personality/behavioral traits actually contribute to increased vulnerability to drug addict...

In the space exploration domain, limitations in the Deep Space Network and the lack of real-time communication capabilities will impact various aspects of future long duration exploration such as a multi-year mission to Mars. One dimension of interest is the connection between flight crews and their Earth-based social support system, their family, friends, and colleagues. Studies in ground-base...

The paper discusses the experience of "social presence" as a relevant effect dimension of avatarmediated net-communication. Special attention is paid to measurement issues combining subjective verbal reports of social presence with objective behavioral data relating nonverbal activity, visual attention and person perception. Data will be reported from a study comparing the effects of different ...

We introduce a new measure for capital market efficiency. The measure takes into consideration the correlation structure of the returns (long-term memory), local herding behavior (information dimension) and uncertainty in the process (entropy). The efficiency measure is then taken as a distance from an ideal efficient market situation. Methodology is applied to a portfolio of 41 stock indices. ...

in this paper we investigate the algebraic properties of dimension of fuzzy hypervector spaces. also, we prove that two isomorphic fuzzy hypervector spaces have the same dimension.

In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) domain, temporal evolution of diseases and patients’ contextual information are critical pieces of knowledge that must be considered in the design of a diagnosis task. The uncertainty inherent in the description of temporal information associated to diseases requires a temporal representation and reasoning framework. This temporal framework has to be flexible en...

Impaired cognitive flexibility in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been reported in previous literature. The present study explored ASD children's visual scanning patterns during the Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) task using eye-tracking technique. ASD and typical developing (TD) children completed the standardized DCCS procedure on the computer while their eye movements...

The objective of this research was to test the application of an alternative hierarchy of effects model (affect, cognition, and conation) in the context of sponsorship. Activity involvement and team attachment (affect) were proposed to influence sponsor image and attitudes toward sponsorship (cognition), which in turn were proposed to influence consumer behavioral intentions (conation). Fans of...

T h i s paper presents a comparative study between three multirobot coordination schemes that span the specmm of coordination approaches; a fully centralized approach that can produce optimal solutions, a fully distributed behavioral approach with minimal planned interaction between robots, and a market approach which sirs in the middle of the specuum. Several dimensions for comparison are prop...