Research indicates that children with reading disability have problems both in naming
objects and in performing certain tasks that require phonological processing or phonological …

In this wide-ranging book the author presents his critique of the contemporary portrayal of
cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science and a proposal for …

From all sides are coming calls for changes in the amount and quality of mathematics
instruction in American schools (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983; …

The computational paradigm, which has dominated psychology and artificial intelligence
since the cognitive revolution, has been a source of intense debate. Recently, several …

In the target article for this volume, Eliot Smith contrasts two kinds of category representation:
exemplar memories and abstractions. After reviewing a wide variety of studies, Smith …

I explore a belief about learning and teaching that is commonly held in education and
society at large that nonetheless is deeply flawed. The belief asserts that mastery of …

Motivated by findings that theta and upper alpha oscillations respond selectively to different
types of memory demands, we investigated the role of phase synchronization in a memory …

Theories of analogical reasoning differ in the roles they ascribe to pragmatic factors as a
source of constraints on analogical mappings. The multiconstraint theory as instantiated in …

This metatheoretical paper investigates mind wandering from the perspective of philosophy
of mind. It has two central claims. The first is that, on a conceptual level, mind wandering can …