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Paz, Luciano; Goldin, Andrea P.; Diuk, Carlos; Sigman, Mariano – Cognitive Science, 2015
Seventy-three children between 6 and 7 years of age were presented with a problem having ambiguous subgoal ordering. Performance in this task showed reliable fingerprints: (a) a non-monotonic dependence of performance as a function of the distance between the beginning and the end-states of the problem, (b) very high levels of performance when the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Play, Games
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Martin, Jay B.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Sanborn, Adam N. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Exploring how people represent natural categories is a key step toward developing a better understanding of how people learn, form memories, and make decisions. Much research on categorization has focused on artificial categories that are created in the laboratory, since studying natural categories defined on high-dimensional stimuli such as…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods, Correlation, Efficiency