Muhammad Shoaib, Donal Fitzpatrick, Ian Pitt
Assistive technology-based solutions in learning mathematics for visually-impaired people: exploring issues, challenges and opportunities
Multimedia tools and applications
effective beliefdesire reasoning requires specialized representational capacitiesthe capacity represent mental states suchas well executive selection processes accurate performance tasks requiring prediction explanation actions social agents compromised beliefdesire reasoning given population may reflect failures either systems report evidence supporting twoprocess model beliefdesire reasoning tasks conducted younger older adult populations task inferential complexity held constant neither group showed specific difficulty reasoning mental state content compared nonmental state content however manipulations systematically increase executive performance demands within beliefdesire reasoning caused systematic decreases task performance older younger adult groups moreover effect increasing executive demands disproportionately greater older group regression analysis indicated measures processing speed inhibition contributed explaining variance accuracy response times beliefdesire reasoning tasks results consistent idea compromised beliefdesire reasoning old age likely result agerelated decline executive selection skills supplement core mental state representational abilities rather result failures representational system