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Van Hoey, Thomas; Thompson, Arthur L.; Do, Youngah; Dingemanse, Mark – Cognitive Science, 2023
Iconicity, or the resemblance between form and meaning, is often ascribed to a special status and contrasted with default assumptions of arbitrariness in spoken language. But does iconicity in spoken language have a special status when it comes to learnability? A simple way to gauge learnability is to see how well something is retrieved from…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes, Speech Communication, Memory
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Haines, Nathaniel; Vassileva, Jasmin; Ahn, Woo-Young – Cognitive Science, 2018
The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is widely used to study decision-making within healthy and psychiatric populations. However, the complexity of the IGT makes it difficult to attribute variation in performance to specific cognitive processes. Several cognitive models have been proposed for the IGT in an effort to address this problem, but currently no…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Task Analysis, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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Kim, Sunae; Paulus, Markus; Kalish, Chuck – Cognitive Science, 2017
Prior work shows that children selectively learn from credible speakers. Yet little is known how they treat information from non-credible speakers. This research examined to what extent and under what conditions children may or may not learn from problematic sources. In three studies, we found that children displayed trust toward previously…
Descriptors: Young Children, Trust (Psychology), Accuracy, Reliability