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- 2Evans, Annabel Ness
- 2Fang, Shichen
- 2Hall, David L.
- 2Heller, Robert Barry
- 2Hensch, Shirley-Anne.
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Fall 2023
Cognitive load theory posits that due to our limited cognitive resources, gestures can be used as external storage to maintain some of the information as the load increases. In this study, we used a narrative task to examine the significance of cognitive load and spatial abilities on gesture...
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Fall 2014
Anchoring is judgmental bias in which quantitative estimates assimilate to seemingly irrelevant numerical reference values (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). While Tversky and Kahneman (1974) originally proposed that anchoring results from the application of a deliberate anchoring-and-adjustment...
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The role of geometric and non-geometric environmental cues in reorientation: Pigeons’ and humans’ use of relative wall lengths, angular information, and features
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The purpose of the following studies was to explore how humans and pigeons encode and use the geometric and featural information of their environments to orient and navigate. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the use of angular amplitude and relative wall length information in parallelogram-shaped...