The paper confronts the account of language learning process that emerg‐ es from the works of Wittgenstein with a more cognitively oriented one. It shows that an exclusive focus on the social dimension of language learning process cannot explain the miracle of acquiring a language that radically differs from one’s mother tongue. Thus, the article aims to make a case for the effectiveness of inc...

Cognitively oriented psychologists often define behavioral effects in terms of mental constructs (e.g., classical conditioning as a change in behavior that is due to the formation of associations in memory) and thus effectively treat those effects as proxies for mental constructs. This practice can, however, hamper scientific progress. I argue that if psychologists would consistently define beh...

Fishbein and Ajzerfs (1975) theory of reasoned action is currently the most successful and much discussed theory in attitude-behavior research. A l though the theory is well established for predicting behavior in various contexts, its central assumption of a static attitude-behavior intention relation appears questionable when recent results of cognitively oriented decision research are conside...

More and more private citizens collect and publish environmental data via web-based geographic information systems. These systems face two challenges: The user interface must be intuitive and the processing of geographic information must account for cognitive impact. We propose to use sketch maps as the medium for interaction, because they reflect a person’s spatial knowledge. Information from ...

This study is part of a trend of examining noncognitive predictors, for example, a situational judgment test (SJT), as supplements to cognitive predictors for making college admission decisions. The authors examined criterion data over multiple academic years and universities. The criterion domain was broadly conceptualized, including both cognitive and interpersonal domains. The sample consist...

OBJECTIVES To investigate dual-task performance of gait and cognition in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired older adults using a motor-cognition dual-task paradigm. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING The Basel Memory Clinic and the Basel Study on the Elderly (Project BASEL). PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred eleven older adults (mean age 77.2±6.2, 350 (49.2%) female an...

Procedural content generators overly focused on numeric variations of content suffer from what we term the Kaleidoscope Effect: because we readily grasp the potential of the generative space, it is not interesting. In this position paper, we argue that the future of procedural content generation will be limited by this effect. We therefore propose a shift toward cognitively-grounded procedural ...