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Nokes, Timothy James

Research Scientist, Project Director
Assistant Professor of Psychology
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago


Contact:
818 LRDC
412-624-7789
412-624-9149
nokes@pitt.edu
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/nokes/CSL-lab-home.html
 

Research Interests: My research focuses on knowledge acquisition and aims to understand the mechanisms of cognitive change. Topics of particular interest include: conceptual learning; collaborative problem solving; knowledge transfer; and the development of formal computer models to test cognitive theories of those processes.

Projects/Labs

• Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC)
• Dialectical Interaction and Conceptual Learning
• CaSe - 21st Century Research and Development Center on Cognition and Science Education
• Cognitive Science Learning Laboratory

Publications

• Nokes, T. J., & Ash, I. K. (in press). Investigating the role of instructional focus in incidental pattern learning. Journal of General Psychology.
• Nokes, T. J., Schunn, C. D., & Chi, M. T. H. (in press). Problem solving and human expertise. International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
• Meade, M. L., Nokes, T. J., & Morrow, D. G. (2009). Expertise promotes facilitation on a collaborative memory task. Memory, 17, 38-48.
• Nokes, T. J. (2009). Mechanisms of knowledge transfer. Thinking & Reasoning, 15, 1-36.
• Ross, B. H., Taylor, E. G., Middleton, E. L., & Nokes, T. J. (2008). Concept and category learning. In H. L. Roediger III (Ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference-Cognitive Psychology. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd.
• Nokes, T. J., & VanLehn, K. (2008). Bridging principles and examples through analogy and explanation. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Mahwah. NJ: Erlbaum.
• Nokes, T. J., & Ross, B. H. (2007). Facilitating conceptual learning through analogy and explanation. In L. Hsu, C. Henderson, and L. McCullough (Eds.), 2007 Physics Education Research Conference (pp. 7-10). American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings.
• Nokes, T. J., & Ohlsson, S. (2005). Comparing multiple paths to mastery: What is learned? Cognitive Science, 29, 769-796. (Abstract-html)
• Nokes, T. J., & Ohlsson, S. (2003). Declarative transfer from a memory task to a problem solving task. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 3, 259-296. (Abstract-html)

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Honors and Awards

• Beckman Fellowship, 2004-2007, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Cognitive Science Travel Funding Award, 2005, National Science Foundation

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