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Children who are poor in school performance often lack the cognitive abilities like listening accuracy, phonological awareness, working memory, comprehension etc. Listening accuracy is the ability to discriminate acoustic sweeps. Phonological awareness is ability to distinguish parts of speech, such as syllables and phonemes presented auditorily. Working memory implies a system for the temporary holding and manipulation of information during the performance of a range of cognitive tasks. Fast ForWord Language Gateway Edition product software of Scientific Learning Corporation aims to improve above abilities through it's web based 7 training exercises. These are Block commander (BC), Old MacDonald’s Flying Farm (OM), Phoneme Identification (PI), Phonic Match (PM), Phonic Words (PW), Language Comprehension Builder (LCB), Block Commander (BC). Aim of this study was to assess criterion related validity of the said product following request from the Scientific learning corpo...

20.2.08 Gave lecture on Discriminant function analysis at DIPR. I started from Kolkata to Delhi by Kingfisher airlines. 21.2.08 Gave lecture on Correspondence analysis at DIPR. I started from Delhi to Kolkata by Deccan airlines.

Can music soothe the mayhem in your mind? Yes, says this therapist Font Size - -A +A Express news service Posted online: Monday , February 18, 2008 at 12:32:30 Updated: Monday , February 18, 2008 at 12:51:21 Print Email To Editor Post Comments http://www.expressi ndia.com/ latest-news/ Can-music- soothe-the- mayhem-in- your-mind- Yes-says- this-therapist/ 274239/ Kolkata, February 17 Can music soothe the mayhem in your mind? One of the earliest pioneers of a non-invasive healing therapy — vibrio acoustic therapy—Olav Skille was in Kolkata to create awareness about the treatment on Sunday. For the uninitiated, vibrio acoustics is all about treating psychological conditions with the use of music and/or sound vibrations. Skille’s approach on vibrio acoustics narrows down the approach to giving “low frequency vibrations”, music or no music. The vibrations are generated through transducers built into a bed or chair. “All you have to do is to just lie down and enjoy for 23 minutes. At the e...

We are today celebrating Saraswati pujo, the Goddess of learning.

Overall, the program is running well under the leadership of Dr. Jayanti Basu. In the inauguration at National Library, some speakers pointed at use of statistics in writing research papers. Simple qualitative data analysis is not sufficient as it fails to assess multivariate properties of research decisions. Dr. Madhabi Chatterjee of US presented a nice model where in we can use nested properties of psychological variables. She proposed such model during therapy or interventions. I added difference in the nested properties of pre during and post intervention periods. Those who are using cognitive behaviour therapy can use this model. Recently, I published one article on this issue but not nested properties using box-plot analysis. The reference is given below: Dutta Roy, D. (2008). Assessing Validity of Web-Based Computer Adaptive Training Modules, Journal Of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127-136. For last few months, I am thinking to organize one ...

Both tried to explore the roots of anxiety.Freud assumes that anxiety occurs due to repressed energies. Repressed energies are coming out in disguise to consciousness from unconsciousness. And when individual feels the actual image of repressed energies, anxiety occurs. Han's phobia is one example. To Freud, unconsciousness is reservoir of energy. In Gita, we find that consciousness is reservoir of energy. Energy comes through 'Nishkam karma'. In Mahabharata, we have seen Eklabya character who actually follows principles of nishkam karma. When man acquires knowledge and skills through nishkam karma, he becomes more confident. His self-efficacy level will be very high. Drona has understood so he exploited Eklabya. In Ramayana, I find Hanuman character as the nishkam karmi. Person who does not acquire knowledge or skills through nishkma karma, he feels feeling of insecurity, fear of failure in front of challenges. Freud highlighted testing the reality principle of Ego. Nish...

For seminar on curriculum design (20-23rd,Dec.) on cognitive Sc., I am now in CBCS (Center for Behavioural and Cognive Sciences), Allahabad. The course is multidisciplinary in nature covering the following subjects: Cognitive Psychology Mathematics Statistics Computer Science Neuroscience Linguistic Philosophy All IITs and IIITs are going to start such course very soon. Here I get opportunity to nteract with different Professors of IIT., Kanpur; IIITs, Hyd, NIMHANS, Delhi Univ., Allahabad University, TISS, Mumbai, AMITY, Lucknow, CU. The Coveners are requsting me to start such course in our esteemed Institute as our Institute has all infrastructures to start it.