COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Brain Tumor, Verbal Overshadowing, Subdominant
30 Nov 2016
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Search inference framework (sif) keeps having the theoretical advantage (testing, mechanizing much more rigorous framework) Gestalt does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e that (cid:894)(cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:448)ague but lots of experimental work proving their points) 1st sol: lots of low intensity beams, lots of places, converging in one spot (cid:894)so do(cid:374)"t kill e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g else(cid:895) 2nd sol: low intensity beam, and a circle around the brain, where the tumor is in the center so the beams converge into that one, main place (in image: brain in the middle, beams converging) Had people read a story, with an intervening distractor task (cid:894)like (cid:862)fi(cid:374)d the adje(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es(cid:863)(cid:895), then unexpectedly, gave them the duncker radiation problem. The army is then split into 4 equal parts, and ea(cid:272)h go do(cid:449)(cid:374) o(cid:374)e path to the fortress(cid:863) Idea being that people would see the analogy between the story and the radiation problem. People started questioning whether humans are rational or not. Lockhart (levels of processing), lamon and gick (1988)
