Information integration in multiple cue judgment: A division of labor hypothesis

There is considerable evidence that judgment is constrained to additive integration of information. The authors propose an explanation of why serial and additive cognitive integration can produce accurate multiple cue judgment both in additive and non-additive environments in terms of an adaptive di...

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Published inCognition Vol. 106; no. 1; pp. 259 - 298
Main Authors Juslin, Peter, Karlsson, Linnea, Olsson, Henrik
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 2008
Elsevier
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Adult
Association Learning
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive Processes
Cue abstraction
Cues
Discrimination Learning
Division of labour
Exemplar memory
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Generalization (Psychology)
Humans
Judgement
Judgment
Knowledge management
Male
Memory
Miscellaneous
Models, Theoretical
Multiple-cue judgment
Probability Learning
Problem Solving
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psykologi
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Serial Learning
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Socialvetenskap
Stimuli
Theories
Cue abstraction
Multiple-cue judgment
Exemplar memory
Judgment
Human
Information integration
Memory
Cognition
Abstraction
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Summary:There is considerable evidence that judgment is constrained to additive integration of information. The authors propose an explanation of why serial and additive cognitive integration can produce accurate multiple cue judgment both in additive and non-additive environments in terms of an adaptive division of labor between multiple representations. It is hypothesized that, whereas the additive, independent linear effect of each cue can be explicitly abstracted and integrated by a serial, additive judgment process, a variety of sophisticated task properties, like non-additive cue combination, non-linear relations, and inter-cue correlation, are carried implicitly by exemplar memory. Three experiments investigating the effect of additive versus non-additive cue combination verify the predicted shift in cognitive representations as a function of the underlying combination rule.
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ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2007.02.003