Reynolds, B., Mehalik, M. M., Lovell, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). Increasing student awareness of and interest in engineering as a career option through design-based learning. International Journal of Engineering Education.

Apedoe, X., Reynolds, B., Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). Bringing engineering design into high school science classrooms: The heating/cooling unit. Journal of Science Education and Technology. pdf

Doppelt, Y. & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Identifying students' perceptions of the important classroom features affecting learning aspects of a design based learning environment? Learning Environments Research, 11(3).

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). The role and impact of mental simulation in design. Applied Cognitive Psychology. pdf

Ellefson, M., Brinker, R., Vernacchio, V., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Design-based learning for biology: Genetic engineering experience improves understanding of gene expression. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. pdf

Nelson, M. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). The nature of feedback: How different types of peer feedback affect writing performance. Instructional Science. pdf

Doppelt, Y., Mehalik, M. M., Schunn, C. D., & Krysinski, D. (2008). Engagement and achievements in design-based learning. Journal of Technology Education.

Cho, K., Chung, T. R., King, W. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Peer-based computer-supported knowledge refinement: An empirical investigation. Communications of the ACM, 51(3), 83-88. pdf

Mehalik, M. M., & Doppelt, Y., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Middle-school science through design-based learning versus scripted inquiry: Better overall science concept learning and equity gap reduction. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(1), 71-85. pdf

Winsler, A., Abar, B., Feder, M., Rubio, D.A., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). Private speech and executive functioning among high functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 37(9), 1617-1635. pdf

Kong, X., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). Global vs. local information processing in visual/spatial problem solving: The case of traveling salesman problem. Cognitive Systems Research, 8(3), 192-207. pdf

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). The relationship of analogical distance to analogical function and pre-inventive structure: The case of engineering design. Memory & Cognition, 35(1), 29-38. pdf

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline: A web-based reciprocal peer review system. Computers and Education, 48(3), 409-426. pdf

Hansberger, J. T., Schunn, C. D., & Holt, R. W. (2006). Strategy variability: How too much of a good thing can hurt performance. Memory & Cognition, 34(8), 1652-1666. pdf

Cho, K., Schunn, C. D., & Charney, D. (2006). Commenting on writing: Typology and perceived helpfulness of comments from novice peer reviewers and subject matter experts. Written Communication, 23(3), 260-294. pdf

Cho, K., Schunn, C. D., & Wilson, R. (2006). Validity and reliability of scaffolded peer assessment of writing from instructor and student perspectives. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(4), 891-901. pdf

Mehalik, M. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2006). What constitutes good design? A review of empirical studies of the design process. International Journal of Engineering Education, 22(3), 519-532. pdf

Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Saner, L. D., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2006). The relationship between spatial transformations and iconic gestures. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 6(1), 1-29. pdf

Schunn, C. D., McGregor, M., Saner, L. D. (2006). Expertise in ill-defined problem solving domains as effective strategy use. Memory & Cognition, 33(8), 1377-1387. pdf

Hansberger, J. T., Schunn, C. D., & Holt, R. W. (2006). Strategy variability: How too much of a good thing can hurt performance. Memory & Cognition, 34(8), 1652-1666. pdf

Moin, L., Dorfield, J., & Schunn, C. D. (2005). Where Can We Find Future K-12 Science & Math Teachers? A Search by Academic Year, Discipline, and Achievement Level. Science Education, 89, 980-1006. pdf

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2005). Spontaneous access and analogical incubation effects. Creativity Research Journal, 17(2), 207-220. pdf

Schunn, C. D., McGregor, M., Saner, L. D. (2005). Expertise in ill-defined problem solving domains as effective strategy use. Memory & Cognition. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Vera, A. H. (2004). Cross-cultural similarities in category structure. Thinking & Reasoning, 10(3), 273-287. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Gray, W. D. (2002). Introduction to the special issue on computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research, 3, 1-3. pdf

Duric, Z., Gray, W., Heishman, R., Li, F., Rosenfeld, A., Schoelles, M. J., Schunn, C., & Wechsler, H. (2002). Integrating perceptual and cognitive modeling for adaptive and intelligent human-computer interaction. Proceedings of the IEEE. 90(7), 1272-1289. pdf

MacWhinney, B., St. James, J., Schunn, C., Li, P., Schneider, W. (2001). STEP --- A system for teaching experimental psychology using E-Prime. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33(2), 287-296. pdf

 Schunn, C. D., Lovett, M., & Reder, L. M. (2001). Awareness and working memory in strategy adaptivity. Memory & Cognition, 29(2), 256-266. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Reder, L. M. (2001). Another source of individual differences: Strategy adaptivity to changing rates of success. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130(1), 59-76. pdf

Lovett, M. C., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). The importance of frameworks for directing empirical questions: Reply to Goodie and Fantino. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129(4), 453-456. pdf

Reder, L. M., Nhouyvansivong, A., Schunn, C. D., Ayers, M. S., Angstadt, P., Hiraki, K. (2000). A mechanistic account of the mirror effect for word frequency: A computational model of remember/know judgments in a continuous recognition paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26(2), 294-320. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (1999). The generality/specificity of expertise in scientific reasoning. Cognitive Science, 23(3), 337-370. pdf

Lovett, M. C., & Schunn, C. D. (1999). Task representations, strategy variability and base-rate neglect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128(2), 107-130. pdf

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (1998). The growth of multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science, 22(1), 107-130.pdf

Schunn, C. D., Reder, L. M., Nhouyvanisvong, A., Richards, D. R., & Stroffolino, P.J. (1997). To calculate or not calculate: A source activation confusion (SAC) model of problem-familiarity's role in strategy selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 23(1), 3-29. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Dunbar, K. (1996). Priming, analogy, and awareness in complex reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 24(3), 271-284. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Vera, A. H. (1995). Causality and the categorization of objects and events. Thinking & Reasoning, 1(3), 237-284. Full paper

 

 
 
Derry, S. J., Schunn, C. D., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (Eds.), (2005). Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Emerging Cognitive Science. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Schunn, C. D., Lovett, M. C., Munro, P., & Lebiere, C. (Eds.) (2004). Proceedings of the 2004 Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gray, W. D., & Schunn, C. D. (Eds.) (2002). Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Altmann, E. M., Cleeremans, A., Schunn, C. D., & Gray, W. D. (Eds.) (2001). Proceedings of the 2001 Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Crowley, K., Schunn, C. D., & Okada, T. (Eds.). (2001). Designing for Science: Implications from Professional, Instructional, and Everyday Science. Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum. Table of contents

 


 
Book Chapters

Nokes, T. J., Schunn, C. D., & Chi, M. T. H. (in press). Problem solving and human expertise. To appear in the International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition. Elsevier.

Schunn, C. D. & Nelson, M. M. (2009). Expert-novice studies: An educational perspective. To appear in Eric Anderman (Ed.), Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference.

Schunn, C. D., (2009). John Robert Anderson biography. To appear in Eric Anderman (Ed.), Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference.

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Setting a limit to randomness [or: ‘Putting blinkers on a blind man’]: Providing cognitive support for creative processes with environmental cues. To appear in K. Wood & A. Markman (Eds.), Tools for Innovation. pdf

Schunn, C. D., Saner, L. D., Kirschenbaum, S. K., Trafton, J. G., & Littleton, E. B. (2007). Complex visual data analysis, uncertainty, and representation. In M. C. Lovett & P. Shah (Eds.), Thinking with Data. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Saner, L. D., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). "I don't know what is going on there": The use of spatial transformations to deal with and resolve uncertainty in complex visualizations. In M. C. Lovett & P. Shah (Eds.), Thinking with Data. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Wallach, D. (2005). Evaluating goodness-of-fit in comparison of models to data. In W. Tack (Ed.), Psychologie der Kognition: Reden and Vorträge anlässlich der Emeritierung von Werner Tack (pp. 115-154). Saarbrueken, Germany: University of Saarland Press.

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2005). Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinarity now and then. In S. J. Derry, C. D. Schunn, & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Emerging Cognitive Science (pp. 287–315). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D. (2005). Puzzles and peculiarities: How scientists attend to and process anomalies during data analysis. In M. E. Gorman, R. D. Tweney, D. Gooding, & A. Kincannon (Eds.), Scientific and technological thinking (pp. 97-118). Mahwah, NJ: LEA. pdf

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2005). Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinarity now and then. In S. J. Derry, C. D. Schunn, & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Problems and promises of interdisciplinary collaboration: Perspectives from cognitive science. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Morris, B. J., & Schunn, C. D. (2004). Rethinking logical reasoning skills from a strategy perspective. In M. J. Roberts & E. Newton (Eds.), Methods of thought: Individual differences in reasoning strategies. Psychology Press. pdf

Schunn, C. D. (2002). Why motivation only sometimes affects base-rate sensitivity: The mediating role of representations on adaptive performance. InS. P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research. New York: NovaScience. pdf

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2002). What makes collaborations across a distance succeed?: The case of the Cognitive Science community. In P. Hinds & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Distributed Work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (2001). Science education in universities: Explorations of what, when, and how. In K. Crowley, C.D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.), Designing for Science: Implications from Professional, Instructional, and Everyday Science. Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2000). Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinarity now and then. In K. Ueda & T. Okada (Eds.), (2000). In search of collaborative cognition: Cognitive science on creative collaboration. Tokyo: Kyoritsu Shuppan. (In Japanese)

Anderson, J. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). Implications of the ACT-R learning theory: No magic bullets. In R. Glaser (Ed.), Advances in instructional psychology: Educational design and cognitive science, Vol. 5 (pp. 1-33). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (2000). Discovery processes in a more complex task. In D. Klahr (Ed.), Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Download programs.

Reder, L. M., & Schunn, C. D. (1999). Bringing Together the psychometric and strategy worlds: Predicting adaptivity in a dynamic task. In D. Gopher & A. Koriat (Eds), Cognitive regulation of performance: Interaction of theory and application. Attention and Performance XVII.Abstract

Schunn, C. D., & Reder, L. M. (1998).Individual differences in strategy adaptivity. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation. Full paper

Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (1998). Scientific Discovery. In J. R. Anderson & C. Lebiere (Eds.), Atomic Components of Thought. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (1998). Stances: Production systems. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.), A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell.

Reder, L., & Schunn, C. D. (1996). Metacognition does not imply awareness: Strategy choice is goverened by implicit learning and memory. In L. M. Reder (Ed.), Implicit memory and metacognition (pp. 45-78). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

 

Conferences

Published proceedings:

Schunn, C. D., Wong, T., Manzoul, W., Kamer, J., Harris, J., Trafton, J. G., & Trickett, S. B. (2007). Detecting and Resolving Informational Uncertainty in Complex Domains. In the Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kong, X., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). Information seeking in complex problem solving. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, MI.

Tollinger, I., Schunn, C. D., & Vera, A. H. (2006). What changes when a large team becomes more expert? In the Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kong, X., & Schunn, C. D. (2006). Global vs. local information processing in problem solving: A study of the traveling salesman problem. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Trieste, Italy.

Harrison, A., & Schunn, C. D. (2004). The transfer of logically general scientific reasoning skills. In the Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Harrison, A., & Schunn, C. D. (2003). ACT-R/S: Look MA, No "Cognitive map"! In the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Bamberg, Germany: Universitäts-Verlag Bamberg.
Altmann, E. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2002). Integrating Decay and Interference: A New Look at an Old Interaction. In the Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cho, K., Schunn, C. D., & Lesgold, A. (2002). Comprehension monitoring and regulation in collaboration. In the Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Morris, B. J., & Schunn, C. D. (2002). Logical Strategery. In the Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Schunn, C. D., & Harrison, A. (2001). "That's odd!" How scientists respond to anomalous data. In the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schunn, C. D., & Ngo, T. L. (2000). Motivating base-rate sensitivity (sometimes): Testing predictions of the RCCL framework. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Full paper
Schunn, C. D., & O'Malley, C. J. (2000). Now they see the point: Improving science reasoning through making predictions. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Full paper
Trickett, S. B., Fu, W.-T., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2000). From dipsy-doodles to streaming motions: Changes in representation in the analysis of visual scientific data. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Full paper
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). Blobs, dipsy-doodles and other funky things: Framework anomalies in exploratory data analysis. In the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Full paper
 Schunn, C. D. (1999). The presence and absence of category knowledge in LSA. In the Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Abstract Full paper
Saner, L., & Schunn, C. D. (1999). Analogies out of the blue: When history seems to retell itself. In the Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Abstract Full paper
Best, B. J., Schunn, C. D., & Reder, L. M. (1998). Modeling adaptivity in a dynamic task. In M. A. Gernsbacher & S. J. Derry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (p. 144-149) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 Schunn, C. D., & Anderson, J. R. (1997). General and specific expertise in scientific reasoning. In the Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Abstract
Reder, L. M., Nhouyvansivong, A., Schunn, C. D., Ayers, M. S., Angstadt, P., & Hiraki, K. (1997). Modeling the Mirror effect in a Continuous Remember/Know Paradigm. In the Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (1996). The problem of problem spaces: When and how to go beyond a 2-space model of scientific discovery. Part of symposium on Building a theory of problem solving and scientific discovery: How big is N in N-space search? In the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Abstract
Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (1995). A 4-space model of scientific discovery. In the Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Abstract
Schunn, C. D., Okada, T., & Crowley, K. (1995). Is cognitive science truly interdisciplinary?: The case of interdisciplinary collaborations. In the Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Abstract
Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (1993). Self- vs. other-generated hypothesis in scientific discovery. In the Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 900-905). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Abstract
Schunn, C. D., & Klahr, D. (1992). Complexity management in a discovery task. In the Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.177-182). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Abstract
Dunbar, K., & Schunn, C. D. (1990). The temporal nature of scientific discovery: The roles of priming and analogy. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 93-100). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.