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Cave, Kyle R.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Three experiments involving 107 adults who performed mental rotation tasks explored how location information is incorporated into image representation. Results suggest that image is coded retinotopically in image representations and that there is no spatiotropic transform in the early stages of visual processing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Coding, Cognitive Processes
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Fong, Geoffrey T.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1986
Four experiments are presented to support the theory that the rule system governing the law of large numbers is not tied to a content domain, and that it can be improved by formal teaching techniques. The experiments showed that statistical training enhanced everyday reasoning. Test problems and objective example problems are appended. (LMO)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Processes, High Schools