Acquiring reason

Acquiring new spatial intuitions: learning to reason about rotations.

There are certain simple rotations of objects that most people cannot reason about accurately. Reliable gaps in the understanding of a fundamental physical domain raise the question of how learning to reason in that domain might proceed. Using virtual reality techniques, this project investigated the nature of learning to reason across the domain of simple rotations. Learning consisted of the a...

Learning to Reason: a Reason!-able Approach

How are general informal reasoning skills acquired? Little research has been done on this topic. Two hypotheses dominate. According to the strong situated learning hypothesis, there are no general informal reasoning skills (only contextor domainspecific skills) and so nothing can be done to improve them. According to the practice hypothesis, general informal reasoning can be improved through in...

Acquiring mastery

Many opportunities for attaining mastery exist within a typical workflow. By leveraging focus-shifts and providing the user with complete control over the learning process, both critical elements of any “as-you-go” learning method, the HotKeyCoach learning model demonstrates that the production paradox can be overcome by experienced computer users. Training For Mastery After formal training, a ...

Acquiring Experiential Traces 1 Running Head: Acquiring Experiential Traces Acquiring Experiential Traces in Word-referent Learning

National Institute of Mental Health grant MH-63972, and NSF grant BCS-0446637. We would like to thank Malte Elson, Christopher Morris, and Helena Yardley for their help in collecting data. Acquiring experiential traces 2 Abstract Two experiments investigated the activation of perceptual representations of referent objects during word processing. In both experiments, participants learned to asso...

Distorting Reason