Simultaneously modeling the cognitive and neural mechanisms involving different types of expertise in mental rotation.
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University of Newcastle, School of Psychology, Australia
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Ohio State University, Psychology, United States of America
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University of Groningen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Netherlands
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Macquarie University, Department of Cognitive Science, Australia
Alexander Provost, Brandon Turner, Marieke van Vugt, Blake Johnson and Andrew Heathcote. In a recent study (Provost, Johnson, Karayanidis, Brown & Heathcote, 2013) we found marked improvements in mental rotation (MR) performance with practice in both a small and a large stimulus set. Converging evidence from behavior - mean response time (RT) - and event-related potentials (ERPs), supported different routes to expertise: direct retrieval of solutions from memory with the small set and algorithmic improvement (enhanced rotation speed) in the large set. Here we develop cognitive models for both small set performance, using a standard LBA (Brown & Heathcote, 2008), and for large set performance, by convolving an LBA with a stochastic rotation algorithm model. Using newly developed simultaneous modeling techniques (Turner et al., 2013) we combined choice accuracy and RT distribution data with spectral analyses of EEG and MEG epochs, combined with ERPs and event-related fields (ERFs), to fit these models. We discuss the implications of our results for understanding the cognitive and neural mechanism underpinning different types of expertise in spatial skill.
Keywords:
mental rotation,
modeling,
Expertise,
LBA
Conference:
XII International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-XII), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 27 Jul - 31 Jul, 2014.
Presentation Type:
Symposia
Topic:
Cognition and Executive Processes
Citation:
Provost
AL,
Turner
B,
Van Vugt
M,
Johnson
B and
Heathcote
A
(2015). Simultaneously modeling the cognitive and neural mechanisms involving different types of expertise in mental rotation..
Conference Abstract:
XII International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-XII).
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.217.00436
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Received:
14 Apr 2015;
Published Online:
24 Apr 2015.
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Correspondence:
Mr. Alexander L Provost, University of Newcastle, School of Psychology, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2308, Australia, alexander.provost@newcastle.edu.au