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Buresh, Jennifer Sootsman; Woodward, Amanda L. – Cognition, 2007
The ability to understand that goals and other intentional relations are attributes of individual people is of fundamental importance to social life. It enables us to predict and interpret actions on-line by relating a person's prior and current behaviors, and distinguishing them from the behaviors of other persons. In this paper, we consider the…
Descriptors: Social Life, Infants, Foreign Countries, Intention
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De Winter, Joeri; Wagemans, Johan – Cognition, 2006
In this study, a large number of observers (N=201) were asked to segment a collection of outlines derived from line drawings of everyday objects (N=88). This data set was then used as a benchmark to evaluate current models of object segmentation. All of the previously proposed rules of segmentation were found supported in our results. For example,…
Descriptors: Models, Benchmarking, Visual Stimuli, Proximity
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Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste; Schaeken, Walter – Cognition, 2005
Literature on relational reasoning mainly focuses on the performance question. It is typically argued that problem difficulty relies on the number of ''mental models'' compatible with the problem. However, no study has ever investigated the wording of conclusions that participants formulate. In the present work, we analyze the relational terms…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Spatial Ability
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Chan, David; Chua, Fookkee – Cognition, 1994
Argues that the syntactic and mental model accounts of the suppression effect in deductive reasoning are inadequate. Proposes a relative salience model. Describes a test of predictions from this model in a suppression model, which obtained evidence of convergent validity for the salience construct. Results could not be reconciled with either the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Deduction
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Scherag, Andre; Demuth, Lisa; Rosler, Frank; Neville, Helen J.; Roder, Brigitte – Cognition, 2004
It has been hypothesized that some aspects of a second language (L2) might be learned easier than others if a language is learned late. On the other hand, non-use might result in a loss of language skills in one's native, i.e. one's first language (L1) (language attrition). To study which, if any, aspects of language are affected by either late…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Native Speakers, Language Skill Attrition