Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage
points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research …

Two recent papers on the topic of emotions and psychopathology testify to the rapidly
growing body of literature concerned with the role of emotions in abnormal development and …

While many books have discussed methodological advances in nonlinear dynamical
systems theory (NDS), this volume is unique in its focus on NDS's role in the development of …

In this chapter a broad variety of aspects of dynamic systems approaches is discussed,
including heuristic descriptions of methodological issues, experimental designs …

The most provocative ideas from Piaget emerged from watching babies at play, making it
possible to access their minds, because they think in actions, which later will go …

The course of human development over the life span is a prime example of a complex,
nonlinear dynamical system. The process of development is recursive and self-organizing. It …

This article reviews a particular computational modeling approach to the study of
psychological development–that of constructive neural networks. This approach is applied to …

The article discusses the commentary regarding statistics and measurement. It is argued that
the classification procedure in the Rule Assessment Methodology (RAM) is suboptimal due …

This chapter covers neural network modeling (also known as connectionist or parallel-
distributed processing modeling) as a tool for studying developmental cognitive …

We propose and test three statistical models for the analysis of children's responses to the
balance scale task, a seminal task to study proportional reasoning. We use a latent class …