Associations between parental educational-occupational levels and cognitive performance in Spanish adolescents : The AVENA study

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Ka-Map: an interactive web-mapping application

ka-Map ("ka" as in ka-boom!) is an open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers. ka-Map currently has a number of interesting features. It sports the usual array of user interface elements such as: interactive, continuous panning without reloading the page; keyboard navigation options (zooming, panning); zooming to pre-set scales; interactive scalebar, legend and keymap support; optional layer control on client side; server side tile caching

Cognitive abilities, sociocultural background and academic achievement

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Cognitive appraisals, emotional reactions, and their associations with three forms of peer-victimization

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Local map update for large scale SLAM

A technique for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for large scale scenarios is presented. This solution is based on the use of independent submaps of a limited size to map large areas. In addition, a global stochastic map, containing the links between adjacent submaps, is built. The information in both levels is corrected every time a loop is closed: local maps are updated with the information from overlapping maps, and the global stochastic map is optimised by means of constrained minimisation

Neuroticism, intelligence, and intra-individual variability in elementary cognitive tasks : Testing the mental noise hypothesis. 'Neuroticismo, inteligencia y variabilidad intra-individual en tareas cognitivas elementales : contraste de la hip??tesis del ruido neuronal'

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Assessment of the global intelligence and selective cognitive capacities in preterm 8-year-old children

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Embodied Autonomy in Digital Ecosystems: From Bio-Inspired Agents to Cognitive Systems

This paper proposes to promote autonomy in digital ecosystems so that it provides agents with information to improve the behavior of the digital ecosystem in terms of stability. This work proposes that, in digital ecosystems, autonomous agents can provide fundamental services and information. The final goal is to run the ecosystem, generate novel conditions and let agents exploit them. A set of evaluation measures must be defined as well. We want to provide an outline of some global indicators, such as heterogeneity and diversity, and establish relationships between agent behavior and these global indicators to fully understand interactions between agents, and to understand the dependence and autonomy relations that emerge between the interacting agents. Individual variations, interaction dependencies, and environmental factors are determinants of autonomy that would be considered. The paper concludes with a discussion of situations when autonomy is a milestone

Cognitive coherence in the evluation of a novel single item

Article published in Judgement and Decision-Making

Using the Document Map in MS Word 2011

The Document Map makes it very easy get an overview of the heading structure of a long document and to navigate aroiund the file quickly. If you watch this video also watch the ones on Using Heading and Contents Styles as well as on Tables of Content. For best viewing Download the video.

Análisis de la cooperación internacional de Japón, UNICEF y UE dirigida a los infantes y adolescentes afectados por las minas antipersonal MAP/MUSE/AEI en el contexto del conflicto interno colombiano, en el período 2000 – 2009

La presente investigación pretende realizar un análisis de la Cooperación Internacional otorgada por Japón, la Unión Europea y UNICEF a las víctimas de MAP (Mina Antipersonal), MUSE (Munición Sin Explotar) y AEI (Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado) en Colombia durante el conflicto interno que libra nuestro país en el periodo 2000 – 2009, partiendo de una descripción de los diferentes programas y proyectos desarrollados en el marco de las líneas estratégicas de Acción Integral Contra Minas Antipersonal (AICMA).

WAIS Seminar:Evaluating the Cognitive Side of Information Interaction

Abstract In this talk, I'll focus on the work we've been doing on evaluating the cognitive side of dealing with information resources and increasingly complex user interfaces. While we can build increasingly powerful user interfaces, they often come at the cost of simple design and ease of use. I'll describe two specific studies: 1) work on the ORCHID project focused on measuring mental workload during tasks using fNIRS (a blood-oxygen-based brain scanner), and 2) a evaluation metric for measuring how much people learn during tasks. Together these provide advances towards understanding the cognitive side of information interaction, in working towards building better tools for users.