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A Cognitive Processing Account of Individual Differences in Novice Logo Programmers' Conceptualisation and Use of Recursion
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The authors investigated individual differences in the construction of mental models of recursion in Logo programming and found that differences in individuals' cognitive profiles would be reflected in differences in their computer programming problem solving behavior.Abstract:
This article describes a study which investigated individual differences in the construction of mental models of recursion in Logo programming. It was hypothesized that differences in individuals' cognitive profiles would be reflected in differences in their computer programming problem solving behavior. The learning process was investigated from the perspective of Norman's mental models theory and employed diSessa's ontology regarding distributed, functional, and surrogate mental models. Analysis of the processes underlying mental model construction and of individual differences in these processes was based on the Luria model of brain function with particular regard to the relative contribution of simultaneous and successive cognitive processing abilities to conscious mental activity. Results generally confirmed predictions regarding the involvement of these abilities in the manifestation of individual differences in the stages of conscious mental activity contributing to the progressive development of m...read more
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The working brain (an introduction to neuropsychology)
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Mental models of recursion
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.
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Qualitative data analysis: a sourcebook of new methods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on focusing and bounding the collection of data, focusing on within-site and cross-site analysis, and drawing and verifying conclusions of the results.
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Thought and language
TL;DR: From aphasics' self records, common experience, changes in signification of sentences according to a verbal or non-verbal context, animals and non speaking children performances, it seems possible to get some evidence that thought is distinct from language even though there is a permanent interaction between both in normal adult human beings.
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Children's Minds
TL;DR: Donaldson as discussed by the authors argues that reading is even more important than we have thought it to be, since learning to read ca actually speed children through the crucial transition from preschool to school.