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Decision Making and Confidence Given Uncertain Advice
We study human decision making in a simple forced-choice task that manipulates the frequency and accuracy of available information. Empirically, we find that people make decisions...
Michael D. Lee, Matthew J. Dry
COGSCI
2004
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Can musical transformations be implicitly learned?
The dominant theory of what people can learn implicitly is that they learn chunks of adjacent elements in sequences. A type of musical grammar that goes beyond specifying allowabl...
Zoltan Dienes, H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
COGSCI
2004
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On the spontaneous discovery of a mathematical relation during problem solving
People spontaneously discover new representations during problem solving. Discovery of a mathematical representation is of special interest, because it shows that the underlying s...
James A. Dixon, Ashley S. Bangert
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2004
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Mapping relational structure in spatial reasoning
Three experiments investigated whether the similarity of relational structures influences the interpretation of spatial representations. Adults were shown diagrams of hand gesture...
Merideth Gattis
COGSCI
2004
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Pragmatic effects on reference resolution in a collaborative task: evidence from eye movements
In order to investigate whether addressees can make immediate use of speaker-based constraints during reference resolution, participant addressees' eye movements were monitor...
Joy E. Hanna, Michael K. Tanenhaus