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Believing Is Seeing: Troland Winner Peers Into Perceptual and Conceptual Learning
Human concept learning clearly depends upon perception. Our concept of “gerbil” is built out of perceptual features such as “furry,” “small,” and “four-legged.” However, recent research has found that the dependency works both ways. Perception
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NSF to Fund Centers on Science of Learning
Known as the science of learning, research into how people think, learn and remember draws from a variety of perspectives across psychology, including brain and behavior, cognition, learning, memory, perception, social psychology, and development. This
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Applying the Science of Learning
How is that we know so much about the way people think, learn and remember, but for the most part don’t use that knowledge in the classroom? This was the underlying theme when a select
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International Psychology: Texan-Turkish Study of Learning Processes Thrives
National frontiers are rapidly shrinking for scientific psychology. The Internet links thousands of psychologists worldwide. Psychologists from about 100 countries will gather for the International Congress of Psychology opening August 16 in Montreal, Canada. Yet
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Educator, Learning Modeler, Neurobehavioral Toxicologist Helen B. Daly (1941-1995)
November 14, 1941, was an auspicious day for psychology Helen Bohmer Daly was born in Manhattan, New York. However, November 23, 1995, was a tragic day- Helen died after fighting a vigorous three-year battle against
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Learning and Memory Expert David S. Olton (1943-1994)
