{"pk":49371,"title":"How many factors underlie cognitive mechanics?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How people reason about the mechanics of the physical world is an important question for several different cognitive sciences. Education, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology have each conducted large numbers of studies over the last several decades, largely in isolation from one another (especially in the last quarter century). The results have suggested that cognitive mechanics may be subserved by a number of mechanisms that are differentially involved in different tasks. Here, we report converging results from factor analysis of a large compendium of mechanics questions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Education; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Problem Solving; Psychophysics"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d2909d2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Wei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""},{"first_name":"Samantha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gutierrez","name_suffix":"","institution":"MGH Institute of Health Professions","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Hartshorne","name_suffix":"","institution":"MGH Institute of Health Professions","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49371/galley/37333/download/"}]}