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Constructing Expertise: Surmounting Performance Plateaus by Tasks, by Tools, and by Techniques Open

Wayne D. Gray, Sounak Banerjee · 2021

Computer science Economics

Acquiring expertise in a task is often thought of as an automatic process that follows inevitably with practice according to the log‐log law (aka: power law) of learning. However, as Ericsson, Chase, and Faloon (1980) showed, this is not t…

Editors' Introduction to Tasks, Tools, and Techniques Open

Wayne D. Gray, François Osiurak, Richard Heersmink · 2021

Computer science Physics

Tasks, tools, and techniques that we perform, use, and acquire, define the elements of expertise which we value as the hallmarks of goal‐driven behavior. Somehow, the creation of tools enables us to define new tasks, or is it that the envi…

Introduction to Michelene Chi's Rumelhart Paper Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2021

Psychology History Computer science

The Rumelhart Prize was awarded to Professor Michelene (Micki) T. H. Chi in 2019. In honor of that award and its recipient, we are pleased to publish the paper which was inspired by her Rumelhart address at the annual meeting of the Cognit…

Introduction to Volume 12, Issue 4 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Computer science Sociology Political science

For our October 2020 issue (Volume 12, Issue 4), we publish two topics. However, before I describe those, I want to note that this is the last issue of topiCS for me as the Founding and Executive Editor of this journal. This introduction i…

Introduction to Volume 12, Issue 3 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Psychology Computer science Political science

For our July 2020 issue (Volume 12, Issue 3), we publish three topics. The first is a one-paper reply from Rafael Núñez and colleagues entitled, "For the Sciences They are A-Changin’: A Response to Commentaries on Núñez et al.'s (2019) 'Wh…

SpotLight on Dynamics of Individual Learning Open

Roussel Rahman, Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Psychology Computer science Engineering

Averaging performance over a group of individuals implicitly assumes that there is only one set of methods for accomplishing the task and that all learners acquire those methods in the same sequence. We maintain that the average subject is…

Retroactive Transfer Phenomena in Alternating User Interfaces Open

Reyhaneh Raissi, Evanthia Dimara, Jacquelyn H. Berry, Wayne D. Gray, Gilles Bailly · 2020

Computer science

We investigated retroactive transfer when users alternate between different interfaces. Retroactive transfer is the influence of a newly learned interface on users' performance with a previously learned interface. In an interview study, pa…

Introduction to Volume 12, Issue 2 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Sociology History Psychology

Two topics grace our second issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS) for 2020; (a) Lying in Logic, Language, and Cognition organized and edited by Hans van Ditmarsch (CNRS), Petra Hendriks (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), and Rineke Ver…

Personal Tax Planning: Due Diligence Defence to Liability for Unpaid Statutory Remittances Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Business Economics Political science

Several potentially onerous liabilities may be imposed on directors outside the provisions of the statute under which their corporation is incorporated or continued. In particular, some of the most common sources of personal liability for …

New measures for the fundamentals of human performance Open

Wayne D. Gray, Ray S. Perez, Roussel Rahman, Chris R. Sims, Elizabeth B. Torres , et al. · 2020

Computer science Sociology Psychology

We bring together researchers who apply a variety of mathematical tools in their research on human performance. Travis Wiltshire examines the social interactions of team members. Chris Sims pushes forward in the assessment of computational…

Introduction to Volume 12, Issue 1 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Computer science Psychology Art

A trio of topics composes our offering for this first issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS) in 2020: (a) The 2017 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Lila Gleitman, (b) the topic of Visual Narrative Research, and (c) five of the six awa…

Space Fortress Dataset by CogWorksLab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Open

Roussel Rahman, Wayne D. Gray · 2020

Computer science Engineering

This dataset contains highly detailed records of nine individuals' performance in the game of Space Fortress over 31 hours at the CogWorks Lab (directed by Wayne D. Gray) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Each individual played 8 games …

Welcome to Cognitive Science: The Once and Future Multidisciplinary Society Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2019

Psychology Sociology History

Colleagues, friends, and readers. I read/heard the news about the Núñez paper on the morning of June 14th 2019. It was there in my emails, all over the CogSci twitter feeds, and in the considerable consternation expressed by many members o…

Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 4 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2019

Psychology Sociology Computer science

The October 2019 issue of topiCS encompasses two topics. We lead with Biette and Stone's topic, Remembering with Others and follow with a very different topic for topiCS that was sparked by a paper published in another journal titled, What…

Interaction for Task Instruction and Learning Open

Andrea L. Thomaz, Elena Lieven, Maya Çakmak, Joyce Chai, Simon Garrod , et al. · 2019

Computer science Psychology Engineering

This chapter considers the qualities of human interaction and learning that will be most effective and natural to incorporate into any interactive task learning agent, and focuses specifi cally on the interactions involved in learning from…

Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 3 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2019

Computer science Psychology

This month's issue presents the topic, "Single Paradigm for Implicit and Statistical Learning," organized and edited by Topic Editors Padraic Monaghan (University of Amsterdam and Lancaster University) and Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster Univ…

Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 2 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2019

Psychology Computer science Sociology

This month's issue presents the topic Computational Approaches to Social Cognition, organized and edited by Topic Editors Fiery Cushman and Samuel Gershman, both of Harvard University. Regular readers of topiCS or of our sister journal, Co…

Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 1 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2019

Computer science Physics

This month's issue presents four topics: (a) Cognitive Success, the latest installment of Visions of Cognitive Science, (b) the Ubiquity of Surprise, (c) the Best Papers from the 2018 Cognitive Science Conference, and (d) the Best Papers f…

Introduction to Volume 10, Issue 4 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2018

Sociology Psychology Computer science

Two topics grace our journal this month. The first is a single paper in our occasional topic, Visions of Cognitive Science. This one asks, How Good Is Your Evidence and How Would You Know? Professor Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of Lon…

Issue Information Open

Wayne D. Gray, Andrea Bender, Christopher F. Chabris, Evelyn C. Ferstl, Robert M. French , et al. · 2018

Computer science Psychology

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Introduction to Volume 10, Issue 3 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2018

History Computer science Psychology

“The Structure, Processing, and Modeling of Abstract Concepts” is this month's lead topic. Topic Editors Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard Steen (both of Universiteit van Amsterdam) have brought together a group of scholars who provide us with…

Introduction to Volume 10, Issue 2 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2018

Psychology Sociology Computer science

Miscommunication! No, not a comment on domestic or international problems, but a new and interesting way of viewing language. For this issue, Topic Editors Patrick Healy (Queen Mary University of London), Johannes Peter Albert de Ruiter (U…

Introduction to Volume 10, Issue 1 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2018

Computer science Psychology History

In this issue, we lead with the topic, Coordination and Context in Cognitive Science, from Topic Editor Chris Kello (University of California, Merced). Kello's introduction begins with a quick introduction to the concepts of the dynamics o…

Change-Episodes in Coding: When and How Do Programmers Change Their Code? Open

Wayne D. Gray, John R. Anderson · 2018

Computer science Mathematics

Department of Psychology

Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 4 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2017

Computer science Psychology

This issue begins with Topic Editors Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) and Shaaron Ainsworth's (University of Nottingham) introduction to their topic, Sketching and Cognition. These Editors and their authors see sketching “as a common h…

Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 3 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2017

Computer science Psychology

This is a big issue with two interesting and important topics. We lead with Topic Editors Morten Christiansen and Inbal Arnon's introduction to their topic on More Than Words: The Role of Multiword Sequences in Language Learning and Use. T…

A Simple Heuristic Successfully Used by Humans, Animals, and Machines: The Story of the RAF and Luftwaffe, Hawks and Ducks, Dogs and Frisbees, Baseball Outfielders and Sidewinder Missiles—Oh My! Open

Gerd Gigerenzer, Wayne D. Gray · 2017

Computer science Mathematics Philosophy

Welcome to one of the most interesting but unexpected papers ever submitted to topiCS. This is the story of a natural heuristic that was discovered by the Royal Air Force (RAF) just prior to War World II. It is a dynamic adaptive heuristic…

Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 2 of topiCS Open

Wayne D. Gray · 2017

Computer science Psychology Sociology

This issue contains two very different and very interesting topics. We lead with the latest entry in our ongoing series, “Visions of Cognitive Science,” a paper by Robert Hamlin (University of Otago, New Zealand) titled, The gaze heuristic…

Issue Information Open

Wayne D. Gray, Andrea Bender, Christopher F. Chabris, Evelyn C. Ferstl, Robert M. French , et al. · 2017

Computer science Psychology

Keep this fi rst note short (about 400-800 words or fewer).Be sure to indicate the topic category that you think it fi ts (Increasing Range and Scope, Integration and Refl ection, or Great Debates).Say something about why this is a topic f…

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