Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Authors (2017) examined decision-making processes together with graph comprehension and in particular the influenceof bottom-up and top-down processing on them. Using an altered procedure, this study examined bottom-up and top-down processing relative to graph comprehension where a decision is made first, followed by graph comprehension. Wecompared the results of the two studies. Some of the results observed in the previous study were not observed in thisstudy, suggesting that the influence of impressions provisionally formed on graph comprehension was mitigated to justifythe declared decision in advance. Attitude s that individuals have in a daily life were observed to have an influence in thedecision in both the previous and current studies, showing that it strongly influences decision making regardless of thedegree to which the graph is comprehended.