Chierchia, G;
Fuhrmann, D;
Knoll, LJ;
Pi-Sunyer, BP;
Sakhardande, AL;
Blakemore, S-J;
(2019)
The matrix reasoning item bank (MaRs-IB): novel, open-access abstract reasoning items for adolescents and adults.
Royal Society Open Science
, 6
(10)
, Article 190232. 10.1098/rsos.190232.
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Abstract
Existing non-verbal ability tests are typically protected by copyright, preventing them from being freely adapted or computerized. Working towards an open science framework, we provide 80 novel, open-access abstract reasoning items, an online implementation and item-level data from 659 participants aged between 11 and 33 years: the matrix reasoning item bank (MaRs-IB). Each MaRs-IB item consists of an incomplete matrix containing abstract shapes. Participants complete the matrices by identifying relationships between the shapes. Our data demonstrate age differences in non-verbal reasoning accuracy, which increased during adolescence and stabilized in early adulthood. There was a slight linear increase in response times with age, resulting in a peak in efficiency (i.e. a measure combining speed and accuracy) in late adolescence. Overall, the data suggest that the MaRs-IB is sensitive to developmental differences in reasoning accuracy. Further psychometric validation is recommended.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The matrix reasoning item bank (MaRs-IB): novel, open-access abstract reasoning items for adolescents and adults |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.190232 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190232 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Non-verbal reasoning, adolescence, speed– accuracy trade-off, matrix reasoning. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085176 |
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