[HTML][HTML] Computational neuroscience across the lifespan: Promises and pitfalls

W van den Bos, R Bruckner, MR Nassar, R Mata… - Developmental cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, the application of computational modeling in studies on age-related
changes in decision making and learning has gained in popularity. One advantage of …

The elaboration of exploratory play

M Pelz, C Kidd - … transactions of the royal society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We apply a new quantitative method for investigating how children's exploration changes
across age in order to gain insight into how exploration unfolds over the course of a human …

Pillars of judgment: how memory abilities affect performance in rule-based and exemplar-based judgments.

JA Hoffmann, B von Helversen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Making accurate judgments is an essential skill in everyday life. Although how different
memory abilities relate to categorization and judgment processes has been hotly debated …

Deliberation's blindsight: How cognitive load can improve judgments

JA Hoffmann, B von Helversen… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Multitasking poses a major challenge in modern work environments by putting the worker
under cognitive load. Performance decrements often occur when people are under high …

Strategies for memory-based decision making: Modeling behavioral and neural signatures within a cognitive architecture

HB Fechner, T Pachur, LJ Schooler, K Mehlhorn… - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
How do people use memories to make inferences about real-world objects? We tested three
strategies based on predicted patterns of response times and blood-oxygen-level …

When easy comes hard: The development of adaptive strategy selection

R Mata, B von Helversen, J Rieskamp - Child Development, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Can children learn to select the right strategy for a given problem? In one experiment, 9‐to
10‐year‐olds (N= 50), 11‐to 12‐year‐olds (N= 50), and adults (N= 50) made probabilistic …

Why are children overconfident? Developmental differences in the implementation of accessibility cues when judging concept learning

M van Loon, A de Bruin, J Leppink… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Children are often overconfident when monitoring their learning, which is harmful for
effective control and learning. The current study investigated children's (N= 167, age range 7 …

Eye movements reveal memory processes during similarity-and rule-based decision making

A Scholz, B von Helversen, J Rieskamp - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent research suggests that when people retrieve information from memory they tend to
fixate on the location where the information had appeared during encoding. We used this …

[HTML][HTML] Is numerical information always beneficial? Verbal and numerical cue-integration in additive and non-additive tasks

A Collsiöö, P Juslin, A Winman - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
When people use rule-based integration of abstracted cues to make multiple-cue judgments
they tend to default to linear additive integration of the cues, which may interfere with …

Preschoolers categorize animate objects better in the presence of a dog

NR Gee, JK Gould, CC Swanson, AK Wagner - Anthrozoös, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The current study was designed to examine whether preschool children categorize picture
stimuli differentially in the presence of a real dog compared with a stuffed dog or a human …