Cognitive Science

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White Matter Integrity Is Associated With the Amount of Physical Activity in Older Adults With Super-aging

Previous studies have introduced the concept of “SuperAgers,” defined as older adults with youthful memory performance associated with the increased cortical thickness of the anterior cingulate cortex. Given that age-related structural brain changes are observed earlier in the white matter (WM) than in the cortical areas, we investigated whether WM integrity is different between the […]

Published on September 16, 2020

How Experts Adapt Their Gaze Behavior When Modeling a Task to Novices

Abstract Domain experts regularly teach novice students how to perform a task. This often requires them to adjust their behavior to the less knowledgeable audience and, hence, to behave in a more didactic manner. Eye movement modeling examples (EMMEs) are a contemporary educational tool for displaying experts’ (natural or didactic) problem‐solving behavior as well as […]

Published on September 16, 2020

The Role of Co‐Occurrence Statistics in Developing Semantic Knowledge

Abstract The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention, memory retrieval, reasoning, and learning. It is therefore crucial to understand how organized semantic representations are acquired. The present experiment investigated the contributions of readily observable environmental statistical regularities […]

Published on September 16, 2020