Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen
Abductive reasoning is the process of finding a best explanation for a set of observations. In many abductive problems, like medical diagnosis, scientific discovery, debugging or troubleshooting, an amount of information far beyond the capacity limits of working memory (WM) must be processed. Althou...
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ndltd-DRESDEN-oai-qucosa-de-qucosa-177382021-03-30T05:05:45Z Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200100710 ger Abductive reasoning is the process of finding a best explanation for a set of observations. In many abductive problems, like medical diagnosis, scientific discovery, debugging or troubleshooting, an amount of information far beyond the capacity limits of working memory (WM) must be processed. Although WM plays a central role in theories of human cognition, theories of abductive reasoning do not specify WM processes during the generation of explanations. On the basis of a computational model of abductive reasoning and of theories of text comprehension a mechanism is proposed that reduces WM load during abductive reasoning. The computational model views abductive reasoning as the sequential comprehension and integration of observations into a situation model that represents the current best explanation for the observations. The proposed WM mechanism assumes that the situation model is only partly kept in WM, whereas other pieces are stored in long-term memory. These long-term representation part can be reliably accessed through retrieval structures to reinstatiate information in WM during abductive reasoning. It is assumed that unexplained observations are actively maintained in WM until an explanation for them could be generated. Thereafter their representation is lost from WM. But these explained observations can be recalled from long-term memory via their integration into the situation model. This mechanism makes predictions about the availability of the mental representation of explained and unexplained observations. These predictions were tested in four experiments, using different memory tests for observations. In Experiments 1 and 2 a recognition test was used, in Experiment 3 an implicit menory test was used and in Experiment 4 the participants had to perform an unexpected recall after task interruption. The results show that unexplained observations are accessed faster than explained ones during abductive reasoning. This confirms the mechanism's assumption that unexplained observations are kept in WM and explained ones not. But explained observations seem not to be represented in long-term memory. Rather, it seems that observations are rapidly forgotten afer they are explained. Different possible reasons for this pattern of result are discussed. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/150 ddc:150 Kognitive Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognition Kognitionswissenschaft Problemlösen Abduktion <Logik> Arbeitsgedächtnis Modell cognition cognitive psychology cognitive science abductive reasoning working memory models Baumann, Martin Technische Universität Chemnitz 2001-08-22 2001-08-22 2001-02-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess doc-type:doctoralThesis info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis doc-type:Text https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A17738 https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A17738/attachment/ATT-0/ https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A17738/attachment/ATT-1/ |
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Abductive reasoning is the process of finding a best explanation for a
set of observations. In many abductive problems, like medical
diagnosis, scientific discovery, debugging or troubleshooting, an
amount of information far beyond the capacity limits of working memory
(WM) must be processed. Although WM plays a central role in theories
of human cognition, theories of abductive reasoning do not specify WM
processes during the generation of explanations. On the basis of a
computational model of abductive reasoning and of theories of text
comprehension a mechanism is proposed that reduces WM load during
abductive reasoning. The computational model views abductive reasoning
as the sequential comprehension and integration of observations into a
situation model that represents the current best explanation for the
observations. The proposed WM mechanism assumes that the situation
model is only partly kept in WM, whereas other pieces are stored in
long-term memory. These long-term representation part can be reliably
accessed through retrieval structures to reinstatiate information in
WM during abductive reasoning. It is assumed that unexplained
observations are actively maintained in WM until an explanation for
them could be generated. Thereafter their representation is lost from
WM. But these explained observations can be recalled from long-term
memory via their integration into the situation model.
This mechanism makes predictions about the availability of the mental
representation of explained and unexplained observations. These
predictions were tested in four experiments, using different memory
tests for observations. In Experiments 1 and 2 a recognition test was
used, in Experiment 3 an implicit menory test was used and in
Experiment 4 the participants had to perform an unexpected recall
after task interruption.
The results show that unexplained observations are accessed faster
than explained ones during abductive reasoning. This confirms the
mechanism's assumption that unexplained observations are kept in WM and
explained ones not. But explained observations seem not to be
represented in long-term memory. Rather, it seems that observations
are rapidly forgotten afer they are explained. Different possible
reasons for this pattern of result are discussed. |
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Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen |
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Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen |
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Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen |
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Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen |
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Die Funktion des Arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven Schließen: Experimente zur Verfügbarkeit der mentalen Repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter Beobachtungen |
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die funktion des arbeitsgedächtnisses beim abduktiven schließen: experimente zur verfügbarkeit der mentalen repräsentation erklärter und nicht erklärter beobachtungen |
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