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    "pk": 50451,
    "title": "Deciphering human meta-cognition in creative problem-solving",
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    "abstract": "Previous studies on human meta-cognition, represented by confidence in perceptual decisions, often focus on over-simplified environments that yield experiences with limited semantic dimensions. However, in real-life situations such as solving a new problem, people need to make sequential decisions in a complex environment, exploring vast combinations of actions that unfold over time. How do people make meta-cognitive evaluations out of the rich, high-dimensional cognitive experiences in such situations? Here we develop a computational method that models each individual's meta-cognitive ratings (e.g., difficulty) of problem-solving experience in a visual puzzle game, using information-theoretic metrics derived from their own action sequences. Individuals are assumed to be Bayesian to update their \"thought-space distributions\" with their own behavioral distributions on different semantic categories. Our results show that information discrepancies between beliefs at different moments can predict individual differences in self-reported difficulty.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Problem Solving; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Statistics"
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    "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77x5c88p",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yang-Fan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Peking University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Qianli",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Chinese Academy of Sciences",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Peking University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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