Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

Aging Cognition Unconfounded by Prior Test Experience.

OBJECTIVE Investigate time-related age differences in cognitive functioning without influences of prior test experience. METHODS Cognitive scores were compared in different individuals from the same birth years who were tested in different years, when they were at different ages. These types of quasi-longitudinal comparisons were carried out on data from three large projects: the Seattle Long...

Movement speed is biased by prior experience

How does the motor system choose the speed for any given movement? Many current models assume a process that finds the optimal balance between the costs of moving fast and the rewards of achieving the goal. Here, we show that such models also need to take into account a prior representation of preferred movement speed, which can be changed by prolonged practice. In a time-constrained reaching t...

Prior experience and complex procedures.

The role of prior knowledge in learning complex procedures was investigated in a transfer task in which subjects learned two related procedures in sequence. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the conceptual and structural similarity between the two procedures; in Experiment 2, we manipulated whether the order of the steps within subprocedures was the same or different during training and transfer,...

Improving the Online News Experience

News consumption patterns are changing, but the tools to view news are dominated by portal and search approaches. We suggest using a mix of search, visualization, natural language processing and machine learning to provide a more captivating, sticky news consumption experience. In this position paper, we suggest a design for one specific use-case where a user needs to catch up on news from a pa...