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Specifying executive representations and processes in number generation tasks

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Research presented utilizes the Interacting Cognitive Subsystems framework to explore executive function, focusing on subjects asked to spontaneously generate numbers. Topics addressed include human information processing, and findings suggest that in executive function there is a distinction between implicational and propositional processing.

Author: Scott, Sophie K., Barnard, Philip J., May, Jon
Publisher: Experimental Psychology Society
Publication Name: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Part A: Human Experimental Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1464-0740
Year: 2001
Mathematical ability, Meaning (Psychology)

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Relative importance of perceptual and mnemonic variance in human temporal bisection

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This article examines the roles of reference memory and perception in the ability to accurately judge the duration of elapsed time intervals. Findings indicate that when the time intervals are stable across trials, subjects utilize reference memory to identify the tendency of perceived durations.

Author: Rodriguez-Girones, Miguel A., Kacelnik, Alex
Publisher: Experimental Psychology Society
Publication Name: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Part A: Human Experimental Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1464-0740
Year: 2001
Decision-making, Decision making, Time perception, Psychometrics

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Long-term memory for spatial and temporal mental models includes construction processes and model structure

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Spatial and temporal mental models are used to create a cognitive representation of a situation. This study suggests that mental models are created in working memory and preserved in long-term memory with a mental record of the construction process.

Author: Baguley, Thom, Payne, Stephen J.
Publisher: Experimental Psychology Society
Publication Name: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Part A: Human Experimental Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1464-0740
Year: 2000
Experiential learning, Reproduction (Psychology)

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Subjects list: Psychological aspects, United Kingdom, Statistical Data Included, Research, Memory, Cognitive psychology
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