What Makes Mental Modeling Difficult? Normative Data for the Multidimensional Relational Reasoning Task.

ABSTRACT: Relational reasoning is a complex form of human cognition involving the evaluation of relations between mental representations of information. Prior studies have modified stimulus properties of relational reasoning problems and examined differences in difficulty between different problem types. While subsets of these stimulus properties have been addressed in separate studies, there has not been a comprehensive study, to our knowledge, which investigates all of these properties in the same set of stimuli. This investigative gap has resulted in different findings across studies which vary in task design, making it challenging to determine what stimulus properties make relational reasoning-and the putative formation of mental models underlying reasoning-difficult. In this article, we present

SUBMITTER: Cortes RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8134533 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature