Steinberg, D., Patchan, M., Schunn, C. D., Landis, A. (in press). Determining adequate information for green building occupant training materials. Journal of Green Building.

Kong, X., Schunn, C. D., Wallstrom, G. L. (in press). High regularities in eye-movement patterns reveal the dynamics of visual working memory allocation mechanism. Cognitive Science.

Doppelt, Y. , Schunn, C. D., Silk, E., Mehalik, M., Reynolds, B., & Ward, E. (in press). Evaluating the impact of a facilitated learning community approach to professional development on teacher practice and student achievement. Research in Science & Technological Education, 27(3), 339-354. pdf

Paletz, S. B. F., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). A social-cognitive framework of multidisciplinary team innovation. Topics in Cognitive Science. pdf

Trickett, S. B, Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). How do scientists respond to anomalies? Different strategies used in basic and applied science. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Steinberg, D., Patchan, M., Schunn, C. D., Landis, A. (2009). Developing a focus for green building occupant training materials. Journal of Green Building, 4(2), 175–184. pdf

Schunn, C. D. (2009). How Kids Learn Engineering: The Cognitive Science Perspective. The Bridge, 39(3), 32-37. pdf

Silk, E., Schunn, C. D., & Strand-Cary, M. (2009). The impact of an engineering design curriculum on science reasoning in an urban setting. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 18(3), 209-223. pdf

Reynolds, B., Mehalik, M. M., Lovell, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). Increasing student awareness of and interest in engineering as a career option through design-based learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, 25(1), 788-798. pdf

Patchan, M. M., Charney, D., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). A validation study of students’ end comments: Comparing comments by students, a writing instructor, and a content instructor. Journal of Writing Research, 1(2), 124-152. pdf

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). The role and impact of mental simulation in design. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 327-344. pdf

Nelson, M. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). The nature of feedback: How different types of peer feedback affect writing performance. Instructional Science, 27(4), 375-401. pdf

Schunn, C. D. (2008). Engineering educational design. Educational Designer, 1. html

Apedoe, X., Reynolds, B., Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2008). Bringing engineering design into high school science classrooms: The heating/cooling unit. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 17(5), 454–465. 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), 195-209. 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, 36(4), 292–298. pdf

Doppelt, Y., Mehalik, M. M., Schunn, C. D., & Krysinski, D. (2008). Engagement and achievements in design-based learning. Journal of Technology Education, 19(2), 21-38. pdf

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

Schunn, C. D. (in press). From uncertainly exact to certainly vague: Epistemic uncertainty and approximation in science and engineering problem solving. In B. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 53).

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). Developing writing skills through students giving instructional explanations. In M. K. Stein & L. Kucan (Eds.), Instructional Explanations in the Disciplines: Talk, Texts and Technology.

Schunn, C. D., Lovell, M. R., Wang, Y., & Yang, A. (in press). Measuring innovative apples and oranges: Towards more robust and efficient measures of product innovation. In J. Gero (Ed.), Studying Design Creativity.

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.

Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). Setting a limit to randomness [or: ‘Putting blinkers on a blind man’]: Providing cognitive support for creative processes with environmental cues. In K. Wood & A. Markman (Eds.), Tools for Innovation. Oxford University Press. pdf

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. (2009). Setting a limit to randomness [or: ‘Putting blinkers on a blind man’]: Providing cognitive support for creative processes with environmental cues. In K. Wood & A. Markman (Eds.), Tools for Innovation. Oxford University Press. 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.

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:

Titus, N., Schunn, C. D., Walhall, C., Chiu, G., & Ramani, K. (2008). What design processes predict better design outcomes? The case of robotics design teams. Proceedings of the Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering Conference, Izmir, Turkey, (April, 2009). pdf

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.