We present a method to simultaneously search for student-level variables constructed from Cognitive Tutor log data and graphical causal models. We seek causal explanations of behavior in Cognitive Tutors, including “gaming the system” and off-task behavior, selecting variables by their contribution to causal structure and strength learning.

This study rests on the two basic ideas: that there has been a visible development of cognitive skills from the Antiquity to nowadays, and that the text analysis is the only way to bring it out. The author addresses the three eminent works: Euclid’s Elements and the historical treatises by Herodotus and Thucydides to reveal the notable peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks’ cognitive style in com...

Cognitive science has always included multiple methodologies and theoretical commitments. The philosophy of cognitive science should embrace, or at least acknowledge, this diversity. Bechtel's (2009a) proposed philosophy of cognitive science, however, applies only to representationalist and mechanist cognitive science, ignoring the substantial minority of dynamically oriented cognitive scientis...

❘ 37 ❘ 1998, Vol. 4, No. 1 VOLUTIONARY E PISTEmology has brought forth the idea of science as an evolutionary system (cf. C AMPBELL 1974, O ESER 1984, R IEDL 1983). From systems theory of evolution (R IEDL 1977) and the theory of punctuated equilibrium (G OULD /E LDREDGE 1977) we know that evolution does not proceed homogeneously. Rather, periods of stasis are interrupted by dramatic changes. O...

objective neuropsychological impairment is an important co-morbidity of chronic epilepsy. the aim of this study was to determine the state of the cognitive and motor development of patients with refractory epilepsy. materials & methods  we studied 150 consecutive children with epilepsy who were referred to mofid children hospital, a third level public referral university hospital in tehran, ira...

The distinction between perception and cognition frames countless debates in philosophy cognitive science. But what, if anything, does this actually amount to? In introductory article, we summarize recent work on question. We first briefly consider the possibility that a perception-cognition border should be eliminated from our scientific ontology, then introduce critically examine five positiv...

Most fields reach a stage when the basic science has developed to a point where it can be naturally expanded to real-world applications. Much of cognitive science has reached that level of maturity. The signs that the time is ripe for more cognitive scientists to make their mark on educational practice are abundant. Some signs are conceptual. We have developed over the past half century a basic...

Cognitive science can broadly be defined as the interdisciplinary study of the mental operations displayed by a cognizer during its interactions with the internal and the surrounding environment (Marmolejo-Ramos, 2008; von Eckardt, 2006). The combination of explanations and methodological approaches offered by fields such as Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Anthro...

Cognitive approaches to religious phenomena have attracted considerable interdisciplinary attention since their emergence a couple of decades ago. Proponents offer explanatory accounts of the content and transmission of religious thought and behavior in terms of underlying cognition. A central claim is that the cross-cultural recurrence and historical persistence of religion is attributable to ...