ABSTRACT
This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals, presenting a multifaceted view of cognitive science. This volume includes all papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the leading conference that brings cognitive scientists together. The theme of this year's conference was the social, cultural, and contextual elements of cognition, including topics on collaboration, cultural learning, distributed cognition, and interaction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 9|6 pages
Perceiving the Infinite and the Infinitesimal World
chapter 17|6 pages
Inequality between the classes
chapter 19|6 pages
The Influence of Affect on Risky Behavior
chapter 20|6 pages
Mechanisms of long-term repetition priming and skill refinement
chapter 21|6 pages
Policy Shift Through Numerically-Driven Inferencing
chapter 27|6 pages
From Prototypes to Exemplars
chapter 30|6 pages
Reduction of Uncertainty in Human Sequential Learning
chapter 31|6 pages
Grounding Functions of Instrument Plays in Dialogue
chapter 35|6 pages
The role of space in socially distributed cognition
chapter 44|6 pages
Phonological and Distributional Cues in Syntax Acquisition
chapter 51|6 pages
Computational Offloading
chapter 55|6 pages
Sequence Effects in Solving Knowledge-Rich Problems
chapter 58|6 pages
Analyzing Effects of Goal Competition and Task Difficulty in Multiple-Task Performance
chapter 66|6 pages
Interventions do not solely benefit causal learning
chapter 73|6 pages
Constructive Perception
chapter 86|6 pages
Speeded categorization
chapter 95|4 pages
Conjunctions are easier than disjunctions
chapter 96|6 pages
Mental metalogic and its empirical justifications
part |110 pages
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