Xie, H;
Zhang, Z;
Baker, Travis;
Peters, Megan;
Wilson, Robert;
(2025)
Linking Strategies to Think Aloud in A Stochastic Learning Task.
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Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
(pp. pp. 2293-2299).
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Abstract
Understanding human thoughts is a key goal of cognitive science. Behavioral observations alone limit insight into cognition. The think-aloud protocol, where participants verbalize thoughts, offers a direct probe into reasoning but is underutilized due to challenges in subjectivity and scalability. Advancements in natural language processing (NLP) enable computational analysis of think-aloud data, yet little work explores its role in strategy learning. We test whether think-aloud reports reveal strategy use in a stochastic learning task where participants verbalized their strategies. Our results show diverse strategy usage, with a preference for persistent choices. Think-aloud analysis suggests participants rely on distinct meta-strategies to guide learning. Clustering and predictive modeling reveal strong alignment between choices and verbalized strategies. These findings highlight think-aloud as a scalable tool with NLP techniques for studying high-level cognition, shedding light on a promising paradigm for cognitive sciences.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Linking Strategies to Think Aloud in A Stochastic Learning Task |
| Event: | The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sb936m3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©2025 the author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Think Aloud, Natural Language Processing, Strategies, Learning, 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 > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216056 |
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