Video games capture the rapt attention of an individual player's mind and body, providing new opportunities for personalized health care. An example of therapeutic interactive technologies is an incentive-based video game that translates physical exercise into mental empowerment via motivational metaphoric visualization in order to help patients psychologically overcome cancer. Such nonpharmaco...

Learning is presumed to be a function of the brain, and disorders of learning reflect a deviation in neural function. Sensory input plays a critical role in brain function. Sensations from hearing, vision, taste, smell, touch, pressure, and movement provide the input to the brain which is organized for movement, cognition and learning. The richness of the sensory environment and the interactive...

This article describes the structure and working of an interactive multimedia environment for the training on two of the speech suprasegmental parameters (loudness and timing), for its application in many types of speech disorders and cognitive-linguistic pathologies. The environment allows the tutor to configure and personalise the exercises to treat specific cases or to let the proper environ...

Tomas Petrasek*, Iva Prokopova, Martin Sladek, Kamila Weissova, Iveta Vojtechova, Štěpán Bahník, Anna Zemanova, Kai Schonig, Stefan Berger, Bjorn Tews, Dusan Bartsch, Martin E. Schwab, Alena Sumova and Ales Stuchlik* 1 Department of Neurophysiology of Memory, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic 2 First Faculty of Medicine, Charles Universit...

an interactive heuristic approach can offer a practical solution to the problem of linear integer programming (lip) by combining an optimization technique with the decision maker’s (dm) judgment and technical supervision. this is made possible using the concept of bicriterion linear programming (blp) problem in an integer environment. this model proposes two bicriterion linear programs for iden...

In this article, executive functions and selfregulation are defined and the reciprocal influence of these factors on the performance of students with language-learning disorders (LLD) is explored. A case study demonstrates the integration of executive functions, self-regulation, and language processes within speech and language assessment and intervention. Clinicians are urged to consider the i...

Mood Swings is introduced: an affective interactive art installation that interprets and visualizes affect expressed by a person. Founded on the integration of a color model and a framework for affective movements, Mood Swings recognizes affective movement characteristics, processes these, and displays a color that matches the expressed emotion. Mood Swings was successfully evaluated by 36 muse...

For drug development in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, it is important to understand which cognitive domains carry the most information on the earliest signs of cognitive decline, and which subject characteristics are associated with a faster decline. A longitudinal Item Response Theory (IRT) model was developed for the Basel Study on the Elderly, in which the Consortiu...

This study examined mathematics anxiety among high and low achieving students (N = 237, grades 9 and 10) by contrasting trait (habitual) and state (momentary) assessments of anxiety. Previous studies have found that trait anxiety measures are typically rated higher than state measures. Furthermore, the academic self concept has been identified to play a moderating role in the trait state discre...

Limb apraxia (LA) is a high-order motor disorder linked to left-hemisphere damage. It is characterized by defective execution of purposeful actions upon delayed imitation, or verbal command when the actions are performed in isolated, non-naturalistic, conditions. Whether interpersonal interactions provide social affordances that activate neural resources different from those requested by indivi...