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Sebastian Holt; David Barner – Cognitive Science, 2025
Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules--for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so on. Past experimental research has focused on children learning base-10 systems, and has reported that this rule learning process is highly…
Descriptors: Computation, Numbers, Adult Students, Number Concepts
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Ilona Bass; Cristian Espinoza; Elizabeth Bonawitz; Tomer D. Ullman – Cognitive Science, 2024
When people make decisions, they act in a way that is either automatic ("rote"), or more thoughtful ("reflective"). But do people notice when "others" are behaving in a rote way, and do they care? We examine the detection of rote behavior and its consequences in U.S. adults, focusing specifically on pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Rote Learning, Critical Thinking
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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Many generativist accounts (e.g., Wexler, 1998) argue for very early knowledge of inflection on the basis of very low rates of person/number marking errors in young children's speech. However, studies of Spanish (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015) and Brazilian Portuguese (Rubino & Pine, 1998) have revealed that these low overall error rates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Finno Ugric Languages