Modifying Cognitive Strategies for Comparing Proportions

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Conditions studied: Proportional Reasoning

In brief

The goal of this study is to understand the cognitive processes underlying quantitative and relational reasoning, including the understanding of mathematical information (e.g., numbers, proportions, percentages, geometry) and related relational concepts (e.g., analogies, the concepts same/different), as well as how people's reasoning can be changed by external factors. The main question it aims to answer is: How does the introduction of a secondary task affect the behavior of children and adults when reasoning about proportions in different formats? Participants will be asked to make judgements about images with and without the presence of a distractor task.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06635577

Run by

Michelle Hurst, PhD

People needed

300

Starts

2024-10-21

Expected to finish

2026-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-20

Who can join

Age: 7 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Typically developing people within the target age range (either 8-years-old OR 18- to 64-years-old) for the study version

You may not qualify if…

• Individuals with known developmental or cognitive disorders
• Participants or parents of participants must speak/read sufficient English to read and complete the informed consent document

Where it is running

• Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science — Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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