Mental models: towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness
Mental models: towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness
Visual information and valid reasoning
Logical reasoning with diagrams
Diagrams and the concept of logical system
Logical reasoning with diagrams
The Strategic Control of Gaze Direction in the Tower of London Task
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Exploring the effect of animation and progressive revealing on diagrammatic problem solving
Diagrams'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
Twelve years of diagrams research
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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Many eye-tracking studies have shown that visual attention patterns during diagram-based problem solving, measured by eye movements, reveal critical aspects of the problem solving process that traditional measures like solution time and accuracy cannot address. In our first experiment (n = 14), we use this method during the solution of a widely-studied high level reasoning problem, Duncker's (1945) radiation problem, to show that differences in visual attention to a particular diagram feature corresponds with correctly solving the problem. We then extend these findings in a second experiment (n = 81) to evaluate cognative sensitivity to perceptual changes in the diagram. We show that problem solvers are highly sensitive to the diagram structure, and that the shifts in attention that result from subtle perceptual changes in the diagram appear to have a dramatic positive effect on reasoning.