Salience in Logical Deduction Tasks
Effects on Processing or Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10122449 |
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| Authors | John Best (0000-0001-7566-0247, Eastern Illinois University, corresponding author), John B Best |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 235-241 |
| Publication date | 1986-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1986.9711034 |
| OpenAlex | W2006138891 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
An experiment was conducted to determine the role of a salient characteristic in a logical deduction task on the representational and/or processing capabilities of subjects. Subjects worked on a logical problem that was systematically altered by changing the information involved in making a particular deduction. Subjects were more likely to make the deduction under conditions of high salience, even though the logical, or processing demands of the deduction were similar in the high and low salient conditions. This finding suggests that the salience of attributes in logical deduction tasks influences the subjects' representation of them, rather than their processing of such attributes
Cognitive psychology · Information processing · Logical analysis · Logical reasoning · Representation (politics · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · Mathematics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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