Explanation as a cognitive process

Z Horne, M Muradoglu, A Cimpian - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Understanding how people explain is a core task for cognitive science. In this opinion article,
we argue that research on explanation would benefit from more engagement with how the …

Using the ACT-R architecture to specify 39 quantitative process models of decision making

JN Marewski, K Mehlhorn - Judgment and Decision making, 2011 - cambridge.org
Hypotheses about decision processes are often formulated qualitatively and remain silent
about the interplay of decision, memorial, and other cognitive processes. At the same time …

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 …

Cognitive costs of decision-making strategies: A resource demand decomposition analysis with a cognitive architecture

HB Fechner, LJ Schooler, T Pachur - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Several theories of cognition distinguish between strategies that differ in the mental effort
that their use requires. But how can the effort—or cognitive costs—associated with a strategy …

Memory accessibility shapes explanation: Testing key claims of the inherence heuristic account

LJ Hussak, A Cimpian - Memory & Cognition, 2018 - Springer
People understand the world by constructing explanations for what they observe. It is thus
important to identify the cognitive processes underlying these judgments. According to a …

Hidden conflicts: Explanations make inconsistencies harder to detect

SS Khemlani, PN Johnson-Laird - Acta Psychologica, 2012 - Elsevier
A rational response to an inconsistent set of propositions is to revise it in a minimal way to
restore consistency. A more important psychological goal is usually to create an explanation …

Reasoning

SS Khemlani - Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Reasoning concerns the cognitive processes by which people draw conclusions
from the salient, meaningful pieces of information that they comprehend or observe …

The primacy order effect in complex decision making

A Rey, K Le Goff, M Abadie, P Courrieu - Psychological Research, 2020 - Springer
The goal of the present study was to assess the role of information order in situations of
complex decision making in which participants have to process a large amount of …

Memory indexing of sequential symptom processing in diagnostic reasoning

G Jahn, J Braatz - Cognitive psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
In diagnostic reasoning, knowledge about symptoms and their likely causes is retrieved to
generate and update diagnostic hypotheses in memory. By letting participants learn about …

Stepwise training supports strategic second-order theory of mind in turn-taking games

R Verbrugge, B Meijering, S Wierda… - … and decision making, 2018 - cambridge.org
People model other people's mental states in order to understand and predict their behavior.
Sometimes they model what others think about them as well:“He thinks that I intend to stop.” …