Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
Expertise and Skill Acquisition: The Impact of William G. Chase
1st Edition
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By James J. Staszewski
May 20, 2013
The research on human expertise and complex skill acquisition that Wlliam G. Chase performed in the decade between publication of the classic chess studies he conducted with Herb Simon in 1973 and his untimely and tragic death has proven profoundly influential and enduring. Its impact spans ...
Development and Brain Systems in Autism
1st Edition
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By Marcel Adam Just, Kevin A. Pelphrey
March 18, 2013
This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging areas in autism: Cognitive and neural systems development: how autism arises in the behavior and ...
Thinking With Data
1st Edition
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By Marsha C. Lovett, Priti Shah
May 22, 2007
The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was motivated by the confluence of three emerging trends: (1) the increasing need for people to think effectively with data at work, at school, and in everyday life, (2) ...
Building Object Categories in Developmental Time
1st Edition
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By Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, David H. Rakison
March 02, 2005
The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related ...
Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
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By Ruth Kimchi, Marlene Behrmann, Carl R. Olson
July 01, 2003
Understanding visual perceptual organization remains a challenge for vision science. Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives explores ideas emanating from behavioral, developmental, neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and computational approaches to the problem of ...
Cognition and Instruction: Twenty-five Years of Progress
1st Edition
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By Sharon M. Carver, David Klahr
April 01, 2001
This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974 symposium entitled Cognition and Instruction. In the 25 years since that symposium, reciprocal relationships have been forged between ...
Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
1st Edition
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By James L. McClelland, Robert Siegler
March 01, 2001
This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those ...
The Emergence of Language
1st Edition
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By Brian MacWhinney
February 01, 1999
For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these apparent alternatives been sharper than in the study of language acquisition. However, as more is learned about the details of ...
Implicit Memory and Metacognition
1st Edition
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By Lynne M. Reder
November 01, 1996
Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metacognition involves the monitoring of performance in order to control cognition; however, it seems reasonable that much of this control runs implicitly (...
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
1st Edition
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By Jonathan D. Cohen, Jonathan W. Schooler
November 01, 1996
There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an increasing number of studies have either ...
Mind Matters: A Tribute To Allen Newell
1st Edition
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By David M. Steier, Tom M. Mitchell
June 01, 1996
Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity ...
The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision: Collected Tutorial Essays
1st Edition
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By Martha J. Farah, Graham Ratcliff
May 01, 1994
This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the ...