Integrating cognition in the laboratory with cognition in the real world: the time cognition takes, task fidelity, and finding tasks when they are mixed together

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Catherine M. Arrington¹  Susan M. Fitzpatrick²  Thomas H. Carr³ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States;LSRT Associates, St. Louis, MO, United States;James S. McDonnell Foundation, St. Louis, MO, United States;Program in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States;

关键词: cognitive studies;    mental chronometry;    ecological validity;    timescales of cognition;    task fidelity;    speed-accuracy tradeoff;    multitasking;    task signatures;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1137698

 received in 2023-01-04, accepted in 2023-06-19,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

It is now possible for real-life activities, unfolding over their natural range of temporal and spatial scales, to become the primary targets of cognitive studies. Movement toward this type of research will require an integrated methodological approach currently uncommon in the field. When executed hand in hand with thorough and ecologically valid empirical description, properly developed laboratory tasks can serve as model systems to capture the essentials of a targeted real-life activity. When integrated together, data from these two kinds of studies can facilitate causal analysis and modeling of the mental and neural processes that govern that activity, enabling a fuller account than either method can provide on its own. The resulting account, situated in the activity’s natural environmental, social, and motivational context, can then enable effective and efficient development of interventions to support and improve the activity as it actually unfolds in real time. We believe that such an integrated multi-level research program should be common rather than rare and is necessary to achieve scientifically and societally important goals. The time is right to finally abandon the boundaries that separate the laboratory from the outside world.

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