Categorization and Working Memory: Bridging two Pillars of Cognition

分类是一种基本的认知技能，是许多专家行为的基础，包括医学诊断。给定的任务通常会在个体之间产生广泛不同的策略，并且有缺陷的策略与专家（例如丛林消防员）的预测错误有关。本项目旨在通过将工作记忆表现与分类联系起来，确定决定个人策略习得的潜在变量。工作记忆是一种核心的认知结构，已经被很好地理解，但它与类别学习的关系迄今尚未被探索。能够预测分类策略的发展可以帮助最大化专家的表现。

Categorization is a fundamental cognitive skill that underlies much expert behavior, including medical diagnosis. A given task often gives rise to widely divergent strategies across individuals, and flawed strategies have been implicated in prediction errors of experts (e.g., bush fire fighters). This project seeks to identify the underlying variables that determine an individual's strategy acquisition by relating working memory performance to categorization. Working memory is a core cognitive construct that is quite well understood, but its relationship to category learning has so far remained unexplored. Being able to predict the development of categorization strategies can help maximize expert performance.