Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

The theory of situated learning claims that every idea and human action is a generalization,
adapted to the ongoing environment, because what people see and what they do arise …

Research on interdisciplinary science has for the most part concentrated on the institutional
obstacles that discourage or hamper interdisciplinary work, with the expectation that …

By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. Insightful and whimsical, profoundly
intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world …

Theory is the bedrock of many sciences, providing a rigorous method to advance
knowledge, through testing and falsifying hypotheses about observable phenomena. To …

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and
instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and …

Wie lernen Menschen und wie kann man ihnen dabei helfen? In diesem Lehrbuch werden
Theorien und sie stützende empirische Befunde dargestellt, auf deren Grundlage …

Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and
games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only …

In writing this chapter we (a constructivist and a situativity theorist) struggled with the
distinction between situativity and constructivism, and the implications in terms of the design …

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer
models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines …