Eva Wiese

Know your cognitive environment! Mental models as crucial determinant of offloading preferences

2019

Objective: Human problem solvers possess the ability to outsource parts of their mental pro-cessing onto cognitive “helpers” (cognitive offloading). However, suboptimal decisions regarding which helper to recruit for which task occur frequently. Here, we investigate …

Problem solvers adjust cognitive offloading based on performance goals

2019

When incorporating the environment into mental processing (cf., cognitive offloading), one creates novel cognitive strategies that have the potential to improve task performance. Improved performance can, for example, mean faster problem solving, more accurate solutions, …