Publications in Insight and Scientific Discovery

Anderson, J. R., Anderson, J. F., Ferris, J. L., Fincham, J. M., & Jung, K.-J. (2009). The Lateral Inferior Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex are Engaged at Different Stages in the Solution of Insight Problems. Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences, 106 (26), 10799-10804.

Guhe, M., Pease, A., & Smaill, A. (2009). A cognitive model of discovering commutativity. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society( p. 727–732).

Byrne, M. D. (2003). A mechanism-based framework for predicting routine procedural errors. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Schunn, C. D. & Anderson, J. R. (2001). Acquiring expertise in science: Explorations of what, when, and how. In K. Crowley, C. D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.) Designing for science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and professional settings, (pp. 83-114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

van den Bosch, A. (2001). Rationality in Discovery: A study of logic, cognition, computation, and neuropharmacology. Ph.D. Dissertation. Groningen University, The Netherlands.

Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (1999). The generality/specificity of expertise in scientific reasoning. Cognitive Science, 23, 337-370.

Murdock, J. W. , Simina, M., Davies, J., & Shippey, G. (1998). Modeling Invention by Analogy in ACT-R. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 740-745). Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Schunn, C. D. & Anderson, J. R. (1998). Scientific discovery. In J. R. Anderson, & C. Lebiere (Eds.). The atomic components of thought, 385-428. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (1997). General and specific expertise in scientific reasoning. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 674-679. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Taatgen, N. A. (1997). A rational analysis of alternating search and reflection in problem solving. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lewis, M. W., & Anderson, J. R. (1985). Discrimination of operator schemata in problem solving: Procedural learning from examples. Cognitive Psychology, 17, 26-65.

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