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Tylén, Kristian; Fusaroli, Riccardo; Østergaard, Sara Møller; Smith, Pernille; Arnoldi, Jakob – Cognitive Science, 2023
Capacities for abstract thinking and problem-solving are central to human cognition. Processes of abstraction allow the transfer of experiences and knowledge between contexts helping us make informed decisions in new or changing contexts. While we are often inclined to relate such reasoning capacities to individual minds and brains, they may in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Transfer of Training
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Liu, Tianyin; Chuk, Tin Yim; Yeh, Su-Ling; Hsiao, Janet H. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Expertise in Chinese character recognition is marked by reduced holistic processing (HP), which depends mainly on writing rather than reading experience. Here we show that, while simplified and traditional Chinese readers demonstrated a similar level of HP when processing characters shared between the simplified and traditional scripts, simplified…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Auditory Perception, Orthographic Symbols, Chinese