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Executive Function and the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
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2023
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Avian Influenza Surveillance with FTA Cards: Field Methods, Biosafety, and Transportation Issues Solved
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2011
A method to preserve, detect and sequence RNA from Avian Influenza Viruses was validated and extended using natural faecal samples from birds. This technique removes the necessity of maintaining a cool chain and handling of infectious viruses and can be applied in a 96-well high-throughput setup.
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A Method for Investigating Age-related Differences in the Functional Connectivity of Cognitive Control Networks Associated with Dimensional Change Card Sort Performance
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2014
This video presents a method of examining age-related changes in functional connectivity of cognitive control networks engaged by targeted tasks/processes. The technique is based on multi-variate analysis of fMRI data.
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Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task
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2025
This study aims to analyze how people reason with and about normative rules, deontic reasoning, and the importance of world knowledge in subjects´ inferences. For this purpose, one of the main experimental paradigms in reasoning research was used: Wason´s selection task.
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The critical choices are cards that could show the rule is false. For a rule linking one visible attribute to another hidden attribute, a card displaying the condition may reveal a violation if its hidden side lacks the required outcome. A card showing the outcome alone cannot usually falsify the rule, because the rule does not state what must precede that outcome.
People may focus on evidence that appears consistent with the rule rather than evidence capable of disproving it. This confirmation-oriented strategy can feel efficient because matching examples are easy to recognize, but it does not directly test whether the conditional relationship holds. The contrast between intuitive choice and logically diagnostic choice makes the task useful for studying confirmation bias.
The hidden attribute determines whether a visible card can expose a counterexample. Participants must reason beyond the information immediately displayed and consider what might appear on the unseen side. This requirement separates surface inspection from deductive evaluation, allowing researchers to examine how people connect visible evidence with an unobserved consequence of the rule.
Researchers present a set of cards, give each card a visible attribute, and state a rule relating that attribute to another property. Participants then choose which cards to inspect or turn over. Their selections are evaluated according to whether they target possible violations, providing a structured measure of how they test a conditional hypothesis.
Choice patterns provide evidence about how participants evaluate evidence, test hypotheses, and apply deductive reasoning. Selecting cards that could falsify the rule indicates attention to logically diagnostic information, whereas selecting only confirming cards can reveal a confirmation-oriented strategy. Researchers can therefore use performance to investigate differences between formal validity and intuitive decision-making.
Changing the surrounding context can influence which cards people select and how they interpret the rule. This makes the paradigm useful for examining the relationship between abstract reasoning and contextualized decision-making. In psychology, such comparisons help researchers study why reasoning performance may vary across situations even when the underlying conditional structure remains relevant.