Categorization and Working Memory: Bridging two Pillars of Cognition

分类和工作记忆：连接认知的两个支柱

• 批准号: DP0879110
• 负责人: Prof Stephan Lewandowsky
• 金额: $ 17.1万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0879110
• 关键词: Categorization; Working; Memory; Bridging; two

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.

分类是一项基本认知技能，是许多专家行为（包括医疗诊断）的基础。一项给定的任务常常会导致不同个体的策略大相径庭，而有缺陷的策略会导致专家（例如丛林消防员）的预测错误。该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。工作记忆是一种众所周知的核心认知结构，但迄今为止它与类别学习的关系尚未得到探索。能够预测分类策略的发展有助于最​​大限度地提高专家绩效。