Working memory and intrusions of irrelevant information in a group of specific poor problem solvers

By Maria Chiara Pasolunghi, Cesare Cornoldi, S. Liberto. 1999

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Measuring and Improving BERT’s Mathematical Abilities by Predicting the Order of Reasoning. (2021, background): “Interestingly, attention appears to be crucial in problem solving (Fuchs et al., 2006; Pasolunghi et al., 1999).”
The Effects of Mathematics Strategy Instruction for Children with Serious Problem-Solving Difficulties (2014, background): “This may have occurred for several reasons, but mostly likely related to the difficulty such children find in discriminating relevant from irrelevant facts in word problems (e.g., Passolunghi et al., 2001).”
Spatial and visual working memory ability in children with difficulties in arithmetic word problem solving (2010, background): “Regarding mathematical reasoning, several studies have shown that children with poor problem-solving skills have lower WM ability (Swanson, Jerman, & Zheng, 2008; Swanson & Sachse-Lee, 2001 ) and perform worse on central executive tasks that require inhibition or updating of incoming information (P”
Cognitive and Emotional Factors in Children with Mathematical Learning Disabilities (2011, methodology): “An Italian adaptation (see Passolunghi, Cornoldi, & De Liberto, 1999 ) of the listening span test devised by Daneman and Carpenter ( 1980 ) was used.”
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context (2023, background): “Studies in psychology have shown that irrelevant information may signiﬁcantly decrease some children and even adults problem-solving accuracy (Hoyer et al., 1979; Pasolunghi et al., 1999; Marzocchi et al., 2002, inter alia ).”
Contributions of Attentional Control to Socioemotional and Academic Development (2010, background): “Although poor problem solvers were able to identify relevant information, they remembered less relevant and more irrelevant information about the arithmetic questions than good problem solvers ( Passolunghi, Cornoldi, & De Liberto, 1999 ).”
The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: a latent-variable analysis. (2004, background): “…hypothesis that has received a good deal of consideration is the idea that a crucial component of this task is an interference control requirement (e.g., Chiappe, Hasher, & Siegel, 2000; De Beni et al., 1998; Lustig, Hasher, & May, 2001; May, Hasher, & Kane, 1999; Passolunghi et al., 1999).”