Eye movements are like gestures in the creation of informal algorithms

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dc.abstract.enPeople who have no experience with programming can create informal programs to rearrange the order of cars in trains. To find out whether they rely on kinematic mental simulations, the current studies examined participants’ eye movements in two experiments in which participants performed various moves and rearrangements on a railway consisting of a main track running from left to right and a siding entered from and exited to the left track. In Experiment 1, they had to imagine different sorts of single moves of cars on the railway. The sequences of their fixations resembled iconic gestures: they tended to look at the starting location of the imagined move, and then at its final location. In Experiment 2, the task was to create descriptions of how to solve four sorts of rearrangements that differ in their Kolmogorov complexity. It predicted the time to find the correct solution and the relative number and duration of fixations recorded during the description of each move for rearrangements of different complexity. Participants were more likely to fixate on the symbols on the cars than anything else, and they fixated longer when the rearrangement was more difficult. They also tended to fixate regions of the tracks where a car’s movement began or ended, as if they were imagining a car moving along the tracks. The results suggest that humans rely on a kinematic mental simulation when creating informal algorithms.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.conference46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
dc.conference.countryHolandia
dc.conference.datefinish2024-07-27
dc.conference.datestart2024-07-24
dc.conference.placeRotterdam
dc.conference.seriesAnnual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
dc.conference.seriesshortcutCogSci
dc.conference.shortcutCogSci 2024
dc.conference.weblinkhttps://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2024/
dc.contributor.authorMackiewicz, Robert
dc.contributor.authorBucciarelli, Monica
dc.contributor.authorKhemlani, Sangeet
dc.contributor.authorJohnson-Laird, Phil
dc.date.access2024-06-18
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-18T11:13:19Z
dc.date.available2024-06-18T11:13:19Z
dc.date.created2024-04-06
dc.date.issued2024-06
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.physical755-761
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume46
dc.identifier.eissn1069-7977
dc.identifier.issn1069-7977
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/727
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pd3c5d5
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOTHER
dc.subject.enabduction
dc.subject.eneye movements
dc.subject.eninformal programming
dc.subject.enkinematic mental models
dc.subject.ensimulations
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleEye movements are like gestures in the creation of informal algorithms
dc.title.journalProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
dc.typeJournalArticleConference
dspace.entity.typeArticle