{"pk":27296,"title":"Cognitive and Attentional Process in Insight Problem Solving\nof the puzzle game “Tangram”","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to demonstrate a constraint\nrelaxation which is followed by the transition to an\nappropriate representation in insight problem solving. The\npuzzle game “Tangram” was used as a new insight problem,\nin which problem-solvers were presented a silhouette and\nasked to make the same configuration by arranging 7 pieces.\nAt the beginning, problem-solvers had a constraint allocating\nthe pieces into a geometric shape, but then relaxed this to\nreach the correct configuration at a later stage of problem\nsolving. Participants’ subjective assessments of their\nconfidence to reach the solution predicted neither the\nconstraint relaxation nor the successful problem solving.\nHowever, eye-tracking data suggested that the successful\nproblem-solvers tended to search the problem space more\nwidely than the unsuccessful-problem solvers.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Tangram; insight problem solving; constraint\nrelaxation; eye tracking."}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74v7p35h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yoshiki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nakano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Akita University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27296/galley/16932/download/"}]}