ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the facts that Bob Siegler is someone who makes one understand what the big issues are in our field, is a role model if they dream of becoming an academic, and helps them to make insightful proposals. It takes them on a trip to show how to discover mechanisms of the phenomena on which they carry out their research, and enables them to insightfully use new brain imaging techniques to further understand cognition and its lifespan development. There were several big issues including the role of strategies on human cognitive performance, the role of domain-general and domain-specific processes in any given skill, as well as what are the developmental mechanisms, and how those developmental mechanisms represent an important constraint on human cognition. One additional feature that characterizes Bob Siegler and that benefits any of his collaborators' careers concerns the insightful proposals that led to make while working with him.