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Learning to Manipulate and Categorize in Human and Artificial Agents
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Morlino, Giuseppe; Gianelli, Claudia; Borghi, Anna M.; Nolfi, Stefano – Cognitive Science, 2015
This study investigates the acquisition of integrated object manipulation and categorization abilities through a series of experiments in which human adults and artificial agents were asked to learn to manipulate two-dimensional objects that varied in shape, color, weight, and color intensity. The analysis of the obtained results and the…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Classification, Adults, Behavior
Bridging Team Faultlines by Combining Task Role Assignment and Goal Structure Strategies
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Rico, Ramon; Sanchez-Manzanares, Miriam; Antino, Mirko; Lau, Dora – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2012
This study tests whether the detrimental effects of strong diversity faultlines on team performance can be counteracted by combining 2 managerial strategies: task role crosscutting and superordinate goals. We conducted a 2 (crosscut vs. aligned roles) x 2 (superordinate vs. subgroup goals) experimental study. Seventy-two 4-person teams with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Group Dynamics, Teamwork, Gender Differences
A Test of Motor (Not Executive) Planning in Developmental Coordination Disorder and Autism
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van Swieten, Lisa M.; van Bergen, Elsje; Williams, Justin H. G.; Wilson, Andrew D.; Plumb, Mandy S.; Kent, Samuel W.; Mon-Williams, Mark A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Grip selection tasks have been used to test "planning" in both autism and developmental coordination disorder (DCD). We differentiate between "motor" and "executive" planning and present a modified motor planning task. Participants grasped a cylinder in 1 of 2 orientations before turning it clockwise or anticlockwise.…
Descriptors: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Cognitive Processes
Understanding Developmental Changes in the Stability and Flexibility of Spatial Categories Based on Object Relatedness
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Hund, Alycia M.; Foster, Emily K. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Two experiments examined the flexibility and stability with which children and adults organize locations into categories on the basis of object relatedness. Seven-, 9-, and 11-year-olds and adults learned the locations of 20 objects belonging to 4 categories. Displacement patterns revealed that children and adults used object cues to organize the…
Descriptors: Cues, Children, Adults, Experiments
Age, Typicality, and Task Effects on Categorization of Objects.
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Blewitt, Pamela; Durkin, Marcie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Depending on age and the demands of the task, people may use different processing strategies in object categorization. Three-year-olds used a wholistic approach with strong effects of object typicality on three categorization tasks. Older children and adults showed differential effects of typicality, suggesting various strategies including…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Classification
Synergistic Psychology Applied to Artistic Creativity.
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Smolucha, Larry; Smolucha, Francine – 1988
Synergistic psychology has been proposed as a meta theory for synthesizing different psychological theories into an explanation of how social, cognitive, and biological factors interact in human behavior. The basic theoretical assumption in synergistic psychology is that internalized social interactions become higher mental functions that regulate…
Descriptors: Adults, Art Education, Art Expression, Cognitive Processes