Search Check is an experimental How Intelligence Works tool for testing search behaviour, benchmark recovery, relevance patterns, database translations and query revisions in one auditable workflow.
A tool-independent guide to research provenance: how to preserve questions, hypotheses, evidence, AI contributions, analyses, findings and claims as an investigation develops.
A practical, tool-independent guide to evaluating literature-search quality using relevance diagnostics, benchmark papers, relative recall, database-specific testing, PRESS and PRISMA-S.
Your phone lights up while you are driving. The notification automatically attracts attention, and checking it is an available response. Not checking requires the current goal—driving safely—to remain more influential than the competing impulse.
You intend to finish a report, but a message arrives. You notice it, resist opening it, keep the purpose of the current paragraph in mind, discover that your original plan is not working, switch strategies and check the result against your goal.
You are reading while a conversation takes place nearby. The sound reaches your ears, but most of it does not enter the center of what you are doing.
You can remember the meaning of democracy without remembering when you learned the word. You may remember your first day at a new job as an event. You can ride a bicycle without consciously retrieving a verbal instruction for each movement.
Someone tells you a six-digit verification code. You look away from the message, type the digits, and seconds later may no longer remember them. That brief retention is the clearest territory of short-term memory : the temporary availability of a limited amount of information after the information itself is no longer present.
A shop reduces a €120 item by 25 percent and then adds a 10 percent tax. You could approach the problem by recalling procedures and calculating carefully. But another question comes first: what relationships do those percentages describe, and in what order do they operate?
Spatial problems ask us to do more than see what is in front of us: they require us to represent relationships, transform them mentally, and reason about what stays the same when objects or viewpoints change.