Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In experimental research, large numbers of participants are used to average out individual differences in the data. However,differences in task performance may be largely due to two factors; lack of task training, and different micro-strategies. Weimplement a methodology that removes the effect of these factors, requires only 23 participants, and still produces largeamounts of data. Other studies have been published using a similar methodology (Cousineau & Shiffrin, 2004; Gray &Boehm-Davis, 2000). Our study is a revision of previous research using a mobile game (West et al., 2018). Participants aretrained extensively on the game to ensure they are experts. The study includes a predictive cognitive model and the game-design is based on an apparent micro-strategy. We hypothesize that the same micro-strategies under identical conditions,should produce identical results across participants and the model. Suggesting the model may exist in the mind of humanexperts.