Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1352-1357

  Williams, Joseph Jay ^a   Lombrozo, Tania ^a   Rehder, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

explanation; explanation impairment effect; generalization; learning; pattern detection; self explanation; understanding

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EXPLANATION; EXPLANATION IMPAIRMENT EFFECT; GENERALISATION; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING; PATTERN DETECTION; SELF EXPLANATIONS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; UNDERSTANDING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84887861951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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