{"pk":26503,"title":"Transfer of Cognitive Skills in Developmental Tasks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The main question we try to answer in this paper is whetherstage-like progression in cognitive development can beexplained by transfer of cognitive skill among tasks. Wefocus on the following question: To what extent does trainingon one task improve the performance on another task? Thetasks are Piaget’s (1959) Balance Scale Task and NumberConservation Task, and a task that we will call the Une-Sentence Task, which is taken from Karmiloff-Smith's (1979)experiment on the acquisition of determiners in French. Were-implemented already existing models within theframework of the PRIMs cognitive architecture (Taatgen,2013). Each task was subdivided in certain stages related tothe complexity of the problem-solving strategies. We showthat mastery of a certain stage of a problem becomes easier ifa higher stage of another task is mastered first.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"transfer"},{"word":"PRIMs"},{"word":"cognitive architecture"},{"word":"Developmental Tasks"},{"word":"cognitive modeling"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77c5m1ds","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sarah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rupp","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Niels","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Taatgen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26503/galley/16139/download/"}]}