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Changing minds about climate change: a pervasive role for domain-general metacognition
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Updating one’s beliefs about the causes and effects of climate change is crucial for altering attitudes and behaviours. Importantly, metacognitive abilities - insight into the (in)correctness of one’s beliefs- play a key role in the formation of ...
Sophie De Beukelaer +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Rhythm and meter are central elements of music. From the very beginning, children are responsive to rhythms and acquire increasingly complex rhythmic skills over the course of development. Previous research has shown that the processing of musical rhythm
Ulrike Frischen +2 more
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Towards the determination of capabilities relevant for expert thinking [PDF]
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2006 The paper starts from the assumption that expert thinking is a complex manner of thinking of higher order, comprising higher mental functions and complex capabilities based on deep structures and knowledge patterns.
Krnjaić Zora T.
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Differential Development of Children’s Understanding of the Cardinality of Small Numbers and Zero
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Counting and the understanding of cardinality are important steps in children’s numerical development. Recent studies have indicated that language and visuospatial abilities play an important role in the development of children’s cardinal knowledge of ...
Silvia Pixner +3 more
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The lemur baseline: how lemurs compare to monkeys and apes in the Primate Cognition Test Battery [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Primates have relatively larger brains than other mammals even though brain tissue is energetically costly. Comparative studies of variation in cognitive skills allow testing of evolutionary hypotheses addressing socioecological factors driving the ...
Claudia Fichtel +2 more
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The specific role of the striatum in interval timing: The Huntington’s disease model
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 Time processing over intervals of hundreds of milliseconds to minutes, also known as interval timing, is associated with the striatum. Huntington’s disease patients (HD) with striatal degeneration have impaired interval timing, but the extent and ...
Laurie Lemoine +5 more
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Metacognitive judgment and denial of deficit: Evidence from frontotemporal dementia
Judgment and Decision Making, 2007 Patients suffering from the behavioral variant of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD-b) often exaggerate their abilities. Are those errors in judgment limited to domains in which patients under-perform, or do FTD-b patients overestimate their abilities in ...
Diego Fernandez-Duque, Sandra E. Black
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Education Sciences, 2016 Giftedness is an increasingly important research topic in educational sciences and mathematics education in particular. In this paper, we contribute to further theorizing mathematical giftedness through illustrating how networking processes can be ...
Maike Schindler, Benjamin Rott
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PANDA: Preference Adaptation for Enhancing Domain-Specific Abilities of LLMs
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024While Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated considerable capabilities across various natural language tasks, they often fall short of the performance achieved by domain-specific state-of-the-art models. One potential approach to enhance domain-specific capabilities of LLMs involves fine-tuning them using corresponding datasets.
An Liu +8 more
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Academic Self-Concepts in Ability Streams: Considering Domain Specificity and Same-Stream Peers
The Journal of Experimental Education, 2014 The study examined the relations between academic achievement and self-concepts in a sample of 1,067 seventh-grade students from 3 core ability streams in Singapore secondary education. Although between-stream differences in achievement were large, between-stream differences in academic self-concepts were negligible.
Liem, Gregory Arief +2 more
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