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    "pk": 28187,
    "title": "Measuring Individual Differences in Visual and Verbal Thinking Styles",
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    "abstract": "Do people have dispositions towards visual or verbal think-ing styles, i.e., a tendency towards one default representationalmodality versus the other? The problem in trying to answerthis question is that visual/verbal thinking styles are challeng-ing to measure. Subjective, introspective measures are themost common but often show poor reliability and validity; neu-roimaging studies can provide objective evidence but are in-trusive and resource-intensive. In previous work, we observedthat in order for a purely behavioral testing method to be ableto objectively evaluate a person’s visual/verbal thinking style,1) the task must be solvable equally well using either visualor verbal mental representations, and 2) it must offer a sec-ondary behavioral marker, in addition to primary performancemeasures, that indicates which modality is being used. Wecollected four such tasks from the psychology literature andconducted a small pilot study with adult participants to see theextent to which visual/verbal thinking styles can be differenti-ated using an individual’s results on these tasks.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Cognitive styles; mental representation; process-ing style; representational modality"
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    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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        {
            "first_name": "Noel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Warford",
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            "institution": "Vanderbilt",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Maithilee",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kunda",
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            "institution": "Vanderbilt",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2018-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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