A study of the literacy-generated cognitive cultural gap was carried out on subjects of different literacy background ranging from illiterate individuals to university students in different majors. The characteristics that aid literate and illiterate people in solving mathematical problems efficiently were identified and analyzed. A field research was carried out in the field of algorithmic pro...

Previous behavioral and functional neuroimaging data indicate that certain aspects of phonological processing may not be acquired spontaneously, but are modulated by learning an alphabetic written language, that is, learning to read and write. It appears that learning an alphabetic written language modifies the auditory-verbal (spoken) language processing competence in a nontrivial way. We have...

The study of subjects who never learn the written representation of language is important because it allows us (1) to understand how oral language processing can be modified through learning a grapheme–phoneme matching operation, (2) to understand if different areas of the brain are involved in the processing of oral language when comparing literate and illiterate subjects, (3) to identify adeq...

background hypertension is considered as a major health problem in our society. the association between educational level with hypertension and its control in the golestan province (northern iran) were the main objectives of this study.methods: this was a population-based cross-sectional study that enrolled 3497 subjects aged 15-65 years using stratified and cluster sampling. the interviewers r...