Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879110]Researchers: Gilles Gignac (Chief Investigator) , Prof Stephan Lewandowsky (Chief Investigator) , Dr Lee-Xieng Yang (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Categorization and Working Memory: Bridging two Pillars of Cognition. 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.
Funding Amount $244,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879110
- ARC : DP0879110