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Smith, Kevin A.; Huber, David E.; Vul, Edward – Cognition, 2013
Many important problems require consideration of multiple constraints, such as choosing a job based on salary, location, and responsibilities. We used the Remote Associates Test to study how people solve such multiply-constrained problems by asking participants to make guesses as they came to mind. We evaluated how people generated these guesses…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity Tests, Natural Language Processing, Cues
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Vo, Melissa L.-H.; Wolfe, Jeremy M. – Cognition, 2013
It seems intuitive to think that previous exposure or interaction with an environment should make it easier to search through it and, no doubt, this is true in many real-world situations. However, in a recent study, we demonstrated that previous exposure to a scene does not necessarily speed search within that scene. For instance, when observers…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Semantics, Eye Movements, Memory
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Henderson, Annette M. E.; Sabbagh, Mark A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Cognition, 2013
We investigate whether preschoolers' word learning is selectively attuned to learning word-referent links that they expect will be relevant to their everyday communicative contexts. In two studies, 4-year-olds were taught the name of an unfamiliar toy that they were told was purchased either nearby or faraway. Children's memory for the link was…
Descriptors: Toys, Preschool Children, Toddlers, Young Children
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Hare, Mary; Jones, Michael; Thomson, Caroline; Kelly, Sarah; McRae, Ken – Cognition, 2009
An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that incoming words incrementally activate such knowledge. If so, then even outside of any larger context, nouns should activate knowledge of the generalized events that they denote or…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Nouns, Recall (Psychology)
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Marsh, John E.; Hughes, Robert W.; Jones, Dylan M. – Cognition, 2009
Distraction by irrelevant background sound of visually-based cognitive tasks illustrates the vulnerability of attentional selectivity across modalities. Four experiments centred on auditory distraction during tests of memory for visually-presented semantic information. Meaningful irrelevant speech disrupted the free recall of semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Semiotics, Memory, Attention
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Fazio, Lisa K.; Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Cognition, 2008
Early school-aged children listened to stories that contained correct and incorrect facts. All ages answered more questions correctly after having heard the correct fact in the story. Only the older children, however, produced story errors on a later general knowledge test. Source errors did not drive the increased suggestibility in older…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Processes, Evaluation, Error Correction
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Weekes, Brendan S.; Hamilton, Stephen; Oakhill, Jane V.; Holliday, Robyn E. – Cognition, 2008
Children with reading comprehension difficulties display impaired performance on semantic processing tasks. These impairments are assumed to reflect weaker knowledge about abstract semantic associations between words in poor comprehenders [Nation, K., & Snowling, M. (1999). Developmental differences in sensitivity to semantic relations among good…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Memory, Reading Difficulties
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Campbell, Jamie I. D.; Metcalfe, Arron W. S. – Cognition, 2008
There is evidence for both semantic and asemantic routes for naming Arabic digits, but neuropsychological dissociations suggest that number-fact retrieval (2x3=6) can inhibit the semantic route for digit naming. Here, we tested the hypothesis that such inhibition should slow digit naming, based on the principle that reduced access to multiple…
Descriptors: Numbers, Reaction Time, Semantics, Subtraction
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Stone, Anna; Valentine, Tim – Cognition, 2007
Knowledge of familiar people is essential to guide social interaction, yet there is uncertainty about whether semantic knowledge for people is stored in a categorical structure as for objects. Four priming experiments using hard-to-perceive primes investigated whether occupation forms a category connecting famous persons in semantic memory. Primes…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Prompting, Reputation
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Darling, S.; Valentine, T. – Cognition, 2005
Memory for familiar people is essential to understand their identity and guide social interaction. Nevertheless, we know surprisingly little about the structure of such memory. Previous research has assumed that semantic memory for people has a categorical structure, but recently it was proposed that memory for people consists only of associations…
Descriptors: Semantics, Novels, Memory, Interpersonal Relationship
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Bloom, Paul; Markson, Lori – Cognition, 2001
Notes young children's fast mapping ability for word and fact learning. Finds children's extension of a new word to novel objects from same category but lack of extension for new facts, as replicated by Waxman and Booth, unsurprising. Poses more interesting question: is word learning done solely through more general cognitive systems or through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Generalization, Learning Processes