Adults' Eye Tracking Search Profiles and Analogy Difficulty
Category
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Glady, Y., French., R.M., Thibaut, J.P.,
Year
2014
Title
Adults' Eye Tracking Search Profiles and Analogy Difficulty
Journal / book / conference
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Abstract
We study analogical reasoning in adults using an eye tracking methodology. In previous experiments, we studied the time course of analogy-making, looking at proportion of looking times and transitions. The main purpose of the present experiment is to test whether adults would adapt their search strategies to the difficulty of the analogical problems (Easy vs. Difficult problems). Difficult problems might have an impact on participants' visual strategies used by participants (Bethell-Fox et al., 1984) Looking-time durations and the number of key item-to-item transitions confirmed differences between the two conditions. We discuss the results in terms of conceptions of analogical reasoning.
Pages
535-540
Keywords
Analogical reasoning; eye tracking; strategies