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Starmans, Christina; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2012
Where are we? In three experiments, we explore preschoolers' and adults' intuitions about the location of the self using a novel method that asks when an object is closet to a person. Children and adults judge objects near a person's eyes to be closer to her than objects near other parts of her body. This holds even when considering an alien…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Experiments, Spatial Ability
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Pennycook, Gordon; Fugelsang, Jonathan A.; Koehler, Derek J. – Cognition, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys and Glumicic (2008) demonstrated that participants reason longer about problems that are characterized by conflict (as opposed to agreement) between stereotypical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Group Membership, Reaction Time, Conflict
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Frank, Michael C.; Goldwater, Sharon; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognition, 2010
The ability to discover groupings in continuous stimuli on the basis of distributional information is present across species and across perceptual modalities. We investigate the nature of the computations underlying this ability using statistical word segmentation experiments in which we vary the length of sentences, the amount of exposure, and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Performance Technology, Experiments, Models