To explore the potential of using game technologies as cognitive tools for teaching and learning, in this paper we describe a game-like learning environment for sixth-grade space science that engages students in problem-based learning. We discuss the design of cognitive tools built in the environment, review four research studies that investigated how these tools supported problem solving, as w...

in proclaiming an international year focusing on the topic of light science and its applications, the un has recognized the importance of raising global awareness about how light-based technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture, and health. light plays a vital role in our daily lives and is an imperative cross-cuttin...

Numerous innocent people have been sent to jail based directly or indirectly on normal, but flawed, human perception, memory and decision making. Current cognitive-science research addresses the issues that are directly relevant to the connection between normal cognitive functioning and such judicial errors, and suggests means by which the false-conviction rate could be reduced. Here, we illust...

Cognitive science and the arts are natural partners. The arts are produced by the mind, the brain, and the body and comprehended, interpreted, and appreciated by the mind, the brain, and the body. The arts make special contributions to cognitive science by providing a rich, natural, multisensory, multi-cultural arena for study and analysis. Recent research bears this out. Projects connecting th...

As the electronic version of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Wilson and Keil, 1999) has now lost its disembodied (and unquotable) form and become incarnate as the official reference work of a vital and expansionary cognitive science, a less reassuring picture of the field is evoked by Two Sciences of Mind, the result of the workshop on Reaching for Mind: Foundations of Cognitive...

subjunctive 13 2 8 3* 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 31 TABLE 4. Frequencies of card choice combinations by conditions. The modified conjunction task and its new baseline condition are below the earlier results which are repeated here for convenience. Classical logical competence responses are marked *. Any response made by at least three subjects in at least one condition is categorised: everything else is mis...