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McAnally, Ken; Davey, Catherine; White, Daniel; Stimson, Murray; Mascaro, Steven; Korb, Kevin – Cognitive Science, 2018
Situation awareness is a key construct in human factors and arises from a process of situation assessment (SA). SA comprises the perception of information, its integration with existing knowledge, the search for new information, and the prediction of the future state of the world, including the consequences of planned actions. Causal models…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Air Transportation, Flight Training
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Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard – Cognitive Science, 2017
Mangarevan traditionally contained two numeration systems: a general one, which was highly regular, decimal, and extraordinarily extensive; and a specific one, which was restricted to specific objects, based on diverging counting units, and interspersed with binary steps. While most of these characteristics are shared by numeration systems in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mental Computation, Anthropology, Archaeology
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Griffiths, Thomas L.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kalish, Michael L. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Information changes as it is passed from person to person, with this process of cultural transmission allowing the minds of individuals to shape the information that they transmit. We present mathematical models of cultural transmission which predict that the amount of information passed from person to person should affect the rate at which that…
Descriptors: Culture, Information Dissemination, Mathematical Models, Prediction
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Bes, Benedicte; Sloman, Steven; Lucas, Christopher G.; Raufaste, Eric – Cognitive Science, 2012
The study tests the hypothesis that conditional probability judgments can be influenced by causal links between the target event and the evidence even when the statistical relations among variables are held constant. Three experiments varied the causal structure relating three variables and found that (a) the target event was perceived as more…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Probability, Correlation, Causal Models
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Navarro, Daniel J.; Dry, Matthew J.; Lee, Michael D. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Inductive generalization, where people go beyond the data provided, is a basic cognitive capability, and it underpins theoretical accounts of learning, categorization, and decision making. To complete the inductive leap needed for generalization, people must make a key "sampling" assumption about how the available data were generated.…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Generalization, Sampling, Learning
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Perry, Conrad; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Zorzi, Marco – Cognitive Science, 2013
It is often assumed that graphemes are a crucial level of orthographic representation above letters. Current connectionist models of reading, however, do not address how the mapping from letters to graphemes is learned. One major challenge for computational modeling is therefore developing a model that learns this mapping and can assign the…
Descriptors: English, Graphemes, Reading Processes, Cognitive Mapping
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Nyamsuren, Enkhbold; Taatgen, Niels A. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Complex problem solving is often an integration of perceptual processing and deliberate planning. But what balances these two processes, and how do novices differ from experts? We investigate the interplay between these two in the game of SET. This article investigates how people combine bottom-up visual processes and top-down planning to succeed…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements, Regression (Statistics)
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Vasishth, Shravan; Brussow, Sven; Lewis, Richard L.; Drenhaus, Heiner – Cognitive Science, 2008
A central question in online human sentence comprehension is, "How are linguistic relations established between different parts of a sentence?" Previous work has shown that this dependency resolution process can be computationally expensive, but the underlying reasons for this are still unclear. This article argues that dependency…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Information Retrieval
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Hattori, Masasi; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Science, 2007
In this article, 41 models of covariation detection from 2 x 2 contingency tables were evaluated against past data in the literature and against data from new experiments. A new model was also included based on a limiting case of the normative phi-coefficient under an extreme rarity assumption, which has been shown to be an important factor in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Responses, Computer Simulation, Heuristics