| dc.creator |
van Rooij, Iris |
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| dc.creator |
Schactman, Alissa |
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| dc.creator |
Kadlec, Helena |
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| dc.creator |
Stege, Ulrike |
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| dc.date |
2006-12-05T20:52:55Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2015-07-24T14:18:14Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2015-07-24T14:18:14Z |
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| dc.identifier |
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol1/iss1/6 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=jps |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=jps |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/25607 |
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| dc.description |
The Euclidean Traveling Salesperson Problem (E-TSP) is a useful task to study how humans optimize when faced with computational intractability. It has been found that humans are capable of finding high-quality solutions for E TSP in a relatively short time and with seemingly little cognitive effort. This observation has led to two general proposals: The high quality of performance on E-TSP reflects (a) the output of automatic and innate perceptual processes or (b) a fundamentally intelligent approach to the task by humans. An experiment was performed to compare performance of three age groups (7- year-olds, 12-year-olds, and adults). Our findings provide corroborating evidence that high-level performance on E-TSP is attainable with perceptual processing alone. At the same time, the exceptionally high performance of adult participants suggests that they additionally exploit their cognitive-analytic skills to improve upon what their visual systems provide. |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.publisher |
Purdue University |
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| dc.source |
The Journal of Problem Solving |
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| dc.title |
Perceptual or Analytical Processing? Evidence from Children's and Adult's Performance on the Euclidean Traveling Salesperson Problem |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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