{"pk":24736,"title":"Investigating Exemplar-Based Processes in Quantitative Judgments: A Multi-Method Approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"People judge an object's criterion value by relying on its similarity to previously experienced objects, the so-called exemplars. This work investigates exemplar-based processes in quantitative judgments by applying cognitive modeling to data from an eye-tracking experiment. Participants (N = 49) first learned the criterion value and location on the screen of each of four exemplars. Then, they assessed the criterion value of briefly presented test stimuli, and eye-tracking measured the gaze proportion to the now blank exemplar locations (looking-at-nothing). Participants who showed more looking-at-nothing also relied more on exemplars according to cognitive modeling of the test phase responses in the RulEx-J framework. Furthermore, looking-at-nothing was directed in particular at locations of exemplars similar to the test stimulus. Our multi-method approach thus suggests tight links between eye-tracking and cognitive modeling. The insights from process-tracing methods might be particularly valuable, when cognitive modeling cannot distinguish between alternative processes to perform quantitative judgments.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Learning; Computational Modeling; Eye tracking; Mathematical modeling"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h1123q4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Florian I","middle_name":"","last_name":"Seitz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Basel","department":""},{"first_name":"Rebecca","middle_name":"","last_name":"Albrecht","name_suffix":"","institution":"Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel","department":""},{"first_name":"Bettina","middle_name":"","last_name":"von Helversen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Bremen","department":""},{"first_name":"Jörg","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rieskamp","name_suffix":"","institution":"Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel","department":""},{"first_name":"Agnes","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rosner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Institute of Psychology, Leibniz University Hannover","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24736/galley/21308/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24736/galley/14334/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24736/galley/18192/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24736/galley/21308/download/"}]}