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Record W4308003212 · doi:10.7176/jep/13-30-11

Speed of Processing: Tests and Factor Structure

2022· article· en· W4308003212 on OpenAlexaff
Jayanta Kumar Das, Chang Lu

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicCognitive Science and Mapping
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitionFactor (programming language)Association (psychology)Working memoryFlexibility (engineering)Cognitive psychologyPsychologyTest (biology)Encoding (memory)Cognitive flexibilityCognitive testArticulation (sociology)ArithmeticComputer scienceMathematicsStatistics

Abstract

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In the present study we examined Speed of Processing derived from a number of cognitive tests; the response speeds were nearly automatic for tests with minimal cognitive load. The tests were given to students across ages from 8 to 20 in schools and colleges located in various parts of India. The structure of the constellation of the test responses was determined by factor analyses. We report one stable factor of speed for ages 8-10 that splits into two separate but correlated factors for ages 11-14,15-17, and 18-20 representing speed of response to tests that contain letters and numbers versus colour stimuli. Developmental changes in response speed across the four adjacent age groups were examined; the trajectory was not consistently incremental, especially for naming colours that did not increase beyond age 11-14.In conclusion, a fairly reasonable deconstruction of the concepts of RAN has been presented in this report. The major components are encoding and articulation, and the necessity of distinguishing alpha-numeric naming time and colour naming. The later requires the additional time for semantic access. At the end, we suggest that in a follow-up research RAN(alpha-numeric&colour) should be viewed as a part of a broader cognitive speed of processing.Our objective is to determine the association between tests of basic executive processes such as cognitive flexibility,attention &inhibition and working memory on the one hand and speed on the other.Consequently not to search for the tests that would not involve speed, but be aware of the value of the correlation of an executive test with sp eed.This will be useful information or example in investigations into the effect of ageing on executive functions. A worthy agenda for future research. Keywords: Rapid Automatic Naming(RAN),Developmental Changes, Executive Functions DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-30-11 Publication date: October 31 st 2022

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.041
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.058

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.041
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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