Individual differences in reward‐based learning predict fluid reasoning abilities

A Stocco, CS Prat, LK Graham - Cognitive Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to reason and problem‐solve in novel situations, as measured by the Raven's
Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM), is highly predictive of both cognitive task …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian inference for multidimensional scaling representations with psychologically interpretable metrics

QF Gronau, MD Lee - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2020 - Springer
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) models represent stimuli as points in a space consisting of
a number of psychological dimensions, such that the distance between pairs of points …

Computational cognitive neuroscience.

FG Ashby - 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Cognitive neuroscience was born in the 1990s amid a technological explosion that
produced powerful new methods for non-invasively studying the human brain, including …

Toward an integrated account of object and action selection: A computational analysis and empirical findings from reaching-to-grasp and tool-use

MM Botvinick, LJ Buxbaum, LM Bylsma, SA Jax - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
The act of reaching for and acting upon an object involves two forms of selection: selection
of the object as a target, and selection of the action to be performed. While these two forms …

A computational model of focused attention meditation and its transfer to a sustained attention task

AJ Moye, MK Van Vugt - IEEE Transactions on Affective …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Meditation has been shown to aid with the management of affective disorders through
improving emotion regulation. Here we begin to develop a theory of meditation by creating a …

Measuring model flexibility with parameter space partitioning: An introduction and application example

MA Pitt, JI Myung, M Montenegro, J Pooley - Cognitive Science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A primary criterion on which models of cognition are evaluated is their ability to fit empirical
data. To understand the reason why a model yields a good or poor fit, it is necessary to …

Modeling perceptual expertise.

TJ Palmeri, GW Cottrell - 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
In this chapter we delineate what we believe to be the important characteristics of perceptual
expertise that a complete model should try to capture, motivate why computational models …

[HTML][HTML] Relative cue encoding in the context of sophisticated models of categorization: Separating information from categorization

KS Apfelbaum, B McMurray - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2015 - Springer
Traditional studies of human categorization often treat the processes of encoding features
and cues as peripheral to the question of how stimuli are categorized. However, in domains …

The interaction between competition, learning, and habituation dynamics in speech perception

L Lancia, B Winter - Laboratory Phonology, 2013 - degruyter.com
Even though the outcome of the perception of phonological patterns is categorical, this
process might still arise from continuous dynamics. Here, we propose a unified dynamical …

Pigeon category learning: Revisiting the Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961) tasks.

VM Navarro, R Jani, EA Wasserman - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
In a seminal study, Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961; henceforth SHJ) assessed
potential mechanisms involved in categorization learning. To do so, they sequentially …