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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Relational thinking is key for complex cognition but its varying complexity is often implicit.
  • Understanding how individuals manage relational complexity and interference is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how people navigate relational complexity and interference.
  • To examine the impact of explicit relational instruction on performance.
  • To explore individual differences in working memory and relational abilities.

Main Methods:

  • A novel relational match-to-sample (RMTS) task was used with three complexity levels: perceptual, analogy, and system mappings.
  • Two experiments varied instruction: minimal vs. directed attention to relations.
  • Individual cognitive abilities (working memory, abstraction, analogy) were assessed.

Main Results:

  • Directing attention to relations improved performance on analogical mappings.
  • Higher performers had better working memory and analogy scores.
  • Lower performers showed increased interference between analogy and system mappings.

Conclusions:

  • Explicitly directing attention to relational characteristics enhances cognitive performance.
  • Relational complexity imposes nonlinear demands on working memory.
  • Interference from competing information is greater for individuals with lower executive function.