Primitive visual channels have a causal role in cognitive transfer
| Autor: | Roi Cohen Kadosh, Roland H. Grabner, Shai Gabay, William Saban, Gal Raz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Transfer
Psychology Science Article 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Human behaviour Psychology Humans Visual Pathways 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Cognitive skill Multidisciplinary Monocular Mechanism (biology) 05 social sciences Subtraction Cognitive neuroscience Publisher Correction Medicine Multiplication 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neuroscience Cognitive psychology Stroop effect |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Scientific investigations have long emphasized the cortex’s role in cognitive transfer and arithmetic abilities. To date, however, this assumption has not been thoroughly empirically investigated. Here we demonstrated that primitive mechanisms—lower visual channels—have a causal role in cognitive transfer of complex skills such as symbolic arithmetic. We found that exposing only one monocular channel to a visuospatial training resulted in a larger transfer effect in the trained monocular channel compared to the untrained monocular channel. Such cognitive transfer was found for both novel figural-spatial problems (near transfer) and novel subtraction problems (far transfer). Importantly, the benefits of the trained eye were not observed in old problems and in other tasks that did not involve visuospatial abilities (the Stroop task, a multiplication task). These results challenge the exclusive role of the cortex in cognitive transfer and complex arithmetic. In addition, the results suggest a new mechanism for the emergence of cognitive skills, that could be shared across different species. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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