{"pk":31729,"title":"Thinking With a Mouse","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Isomorphic problems are to cognition what optical illusions are to perception. By drawing attention to anomalies such as problems which are\nidentical in form but vary widely in difficulty\nthey highlight cognitive processes normally hid-\nden a m o n g the minutiae of our theories. Results\nare reported from an experiment in which sub-\njects solved a three disk Tower of Hanoi problem\nand its Monster Globe change isomorph using\ndirect manipulation tableaus or paper and pencil.\nSubjects using direct manipulation were found to\nsolve the Monster Globe problem in half the time\ntaken by paper and pencil subjects. A n explana-\ntion revolving around attunement to environmen-\ntal constraints is advanced to account for this\ndifference.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ft3663b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lewis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Ryk","middle_name":"","last_name":"Spoor","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31729/galley/22797/download/"}]}