EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Aptitude; Behavior Patterns; *Children; Cognitive Processes; Comprehension; Curriculum Development; Diagnostic Tests; *Educational Diagnosis; Emotional Disturbances; Intelligence; *Intelligence Tests; Learning Disabilities; Measurement Techniques; Measures (Individuals); Perceptual Development; *Performance Tests; Prediction; Scaling; Student Place...

Investment traits--the tendency to seek out and engage in cognitive activity--might affect intellectual growth across the life span, specifically the development from fluid to crystallized intelligence. Here we explore how childhood IQ at age 11 years, IQ at age 79, and the investment trait Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE) at age 81 affect the mean level and change in verbal fluency scores...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of conditions that show abnormalities in the neuroanatomy of multiple brain regions. The variability in the development of intelligence and language among individuals on the autism spectrum has long been acknowledged, but it remains unknown whether these differences impact on the neuropathology of ASD. In this study, we aimed to compare associations b...

OBJECTIVE Apolipoprotein E4 may benefit children during early periods of life when the body is challenged by infection and nutritional decline. We examined whether apolipoprotein E4 affects intestinal barrier function, improving short-term growth and long-term cognitive outcomes in Brazilian shantytown children. METHODS A total of 213 Brazilian shantytown children with below-median height-for...

Words Abstract words are words or concepts that cannot be grasped by the human senses and that do not provoke a corresponding image in the mind. In the German language, abstract words may be constructed from adjectives and verbs with an emotional tone, for example ärgern Ärger (to make angry anger), hassen Hass (to hate hatred), blöd Blödheit (foolish foolishness), dumm Dummheit (stupidly stupi...

The electroencephalogram (EEG) reflects stable individual differences in brain function and therefore can be a powerful instrument for exploring the biological basis of intelligence. However, the question of whether the EEG, and, in particular, the alpha rhythm frequency (AF) is related to intelligence in normal adults remained unclear. We analyzed EEG spectra and performance on different intel...

This investigation extended work on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scaled-Revised (WAIS-R) to the WAIS-III by determining how allotments of scaled-score points change with age, and to evaluate WAIS-III performance in terms of the Horn-Cattell constructs of crystallized and fluid intelligence. The age norms for the 14 individual WAIS-III subtests indicate that additional scaled-score points are...

5 We describe and experimentally validate a question-asking framework for machine-learned linguistic knowledge about human emotions. Using the Socratic method as a theoretical inspiration, we develop an experimental method and computational model for computers to learn subjective information about emotions by playing emotion twenty questions (EMO20Q), a game of twenty questions limited to words...

There are several studies showing that working memory and intelligence are strongly related. However, working memory tasks require simultaneous processing and storage, so the causes of their relationship with intelligence are currently a matter of discussion. The present study examined the simultaneous relationships among short-term memory (STM), working memory (WM), and general intelligence ( ...

An instrument designed to separate 2 midlevel traits within each of the Big Five (the Big Five Aspect Scales [BFAS]) was used to clarify the relation of personality to cognitive ability. The BFAS measures Openness to Experience and Intellect as separate (although related) traits, and refers to the broader Big Five trait as Openness/Intellect. In 2 samples (N = 125 and 189), Intellect was indepe...