Centros y comunidades: Recent submissions
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Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children
(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2022)There is growing interest in teaching computer science and programming skills in schools. Here we investigated the efficacy of peer tutoring, which is known to be a useful educational resource in other domains but never ... -
Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on the tourism industry in countries of the Caribbean Community
(2022)Objective. To assess whether the introduction of comprehensive smoke-free legislation affected tourism in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Methods. We ... -
Bayesian validation of grammar productions for the language of thought
(2018-07-10)Probabilistic proposals of Language of Thoughts (LoTs) can explain learning across differ- ent domains as statistical inference over a compositionally structured hypothesis space. While frameworks may differ on how a LoT ... -
Bridging psychology and mathematics : can the brain understand the brain?
(2004-09-14)We are told scientists are divided into experimentalists and theoreticians. The dialectic description of the dynamics of science, with one tribe gathering data and collecting evidence and another tribe providing form to ... -
Parsing a cognitive task : a characterization of the mind’s bottleneck
(2005-02-08)Parsing a mental operation into components, characterizing the parallel or serial nature of this flow, and understanding what each process ultimately contributes to response time are fundamental questions in cognitive ... -
Dynamics of the central bottleneck : dual-task and task uncertainty
(2006-06-27)Why is the human brain fundamentally limited when attempting to execute two tasks at the same time or in close succession? Two classical paradigms, psychological refractory period (PRP) and task switching, have independently ... -
Delays without mistakes : response time and error distributions in dual-task
(2008-09-12)Background: When two tasks are presented within a short interval, a delay in the execution of the second task has been systematically observed. Psychological theorizing has argued that while sensory and motor operations ...