Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879110

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879110

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Categorization and Working Memory: Bridging two Pillars of Cognition. Categorization is a fundamental cognitive skill that underlies much expert behavior, including medical diagnosis. A given task often gives rise to widely divergent strategies across individuals, and flawed strategies have been implicated in prediction errors of experts (e.g., bush fire fighters). This project seeks to identify the underlying variables that determine an individual's strategy acquisition by relating working memory performance to categorization. Working memory is a core cognitive construct that is quite well understood, but its relationship to category learning has so far remained unexplored. Being able to predict the development of categorization strategies can help maximize expert performance.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $244,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychological Methodology, Design And Analysis | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychological Methodology, Design And Analysis | Psychology

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