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Lejarraga, Tomas; Hertwig, Ralph; Gonzalez, Cleotilde – Cognition, 2012
Research into human decision-making has often sidestepped the question of search despite its importance across a wide range of domains such as search for food, mates, allies, visual targets or information. Recently, research on decisions from experience has made progress in finding out how individual characteristics shape search for information.…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Ecology, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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De Bruin, L. C.; Newen, A. – Cognition, 2012
The elicited-response false belief task has traditionally been considered as reliably indicating that children acquire an understanding of false belief around 4 years of age. However, recent investigations using spontaneous-response tasks suggest that false belief understanding emerges much earlier. This leads to a developmental paradox: if young…
Descriptors: Investigations, Preschool Children, Infants, Organizations (Groups)
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Nardini, Marko; Thomas, Rhiannon L.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Braddick, Oliver J.; Atkinson, Janette – Cognition, 2009
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry. Careful analysis of the visual information available for these tasks…
Descriptors: Cues, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Inferences
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Turconi, Eva; Campbell, Jamie I. D.; Seron, Xavier – Cognition, 2006
We investigated processing of numerical order information and its relation to mechanisms of numerical quantity processing. In two experiments, performance on a quantity-comparison task (e.g. 2 5; which is larger?) was compared with performance on a relative-order judgment task (e.g. 2 5; ascending or descending order?). The comparison task…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Mathematical Aptitude, Task Analysis, Arithmetic
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Goel, Vinod; Dolan, Raymond J. – Cognition, 2004
While inductive and deductive reasoning are considered distinct logical and psychological processes, little is known about their respective neural basis. To address this issue we scanned 16 subjects with fMRI, using an event-related design, while they engaged in inductive and deductive reasoning tasks. Both types of reasoning were characterized by…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Thinking Skills, Neurology