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Un enfoque de red múltiple cognitiva para investigar la navegación mental y predecir la cognición de alto nivel
Ofir Ganor1, Gal Samuel1, Massimo Stella2
1Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Behavior research methods
|August 25, 2025
Resumen
La navegación mental, medida mediante tareas de fluidez verbal, predice las diferencias individuales en inteligencia y creatividad. Esta investigación introduce un nuevo enfoque para comprender las habilidades cognitivas complejas.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Psicología cognitiva
- Neurociencia computacional
- Psicometría
Sus antecedentes:
- La cognición de alto nivel, incluida la inteligencia y la creatividad, son rasgos humanos clave.
- Los mecanismos subyacentes de estas habilidades complejas siguen siendo difíciles de identificar.
- La navegación mental se propone como un mecanismo unificador potencial.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar el papel de la navegación mental en la predicción de las diferencias individuales en la cognición de alto nivel.
- Para hacer operativa la navegación mental usando tareas de fluidez verbal.
- Para demostrar el poder predictivo de la navegación mental para la inteligencia, la creatividad y la apertura a la experiencia.
Principales métodos:
- Se utilizaron tareas de fluidez verbal (fluidez animal, generación de sinónimos) con 479 participantes.
- Las respuestas modeladas de los participantes utilizando una red múltiple cognitiva multidimensional del léxico mental.
- Utilizó medidas cuantitativas de navegación mental en modelos de regresión.
Principales resultados:
- Las medidas de navegación mental predijeron diferencias individuales significativas en la evaluación de la cognición de alto nivel.
- Los resultados fueron consistentes en ambas tareas de fluidez verbal, lo que demuestra la robustez.
- Desarrolló una herramienta en línea, la herramienta de predicción cognitiva de alto nivel, basada en los hallazgos.
Conclusiones:
- Los métodos computacionales convergentes, específicamente la navegación mental a través de la fluidez verbal, pueden dilucidar la cognición compleja de alto nivel.
- Este enfoque ofrece una nueva forma de entender y predecir la inteligencia y la creatividad.
- El estudio destaca la utilidad de las herramientas computacionales en la investigación de la ciencia cognitiva.
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