People producing illustrations with graphical editors often need to repeat the same steps over and over again. This paper describes five techniques that reduce the amount of repet...
Why do people create extra representations to help them make sense of situations, diagrams, illustrations, instructions and problems? The obvious explanation-external representatio...
Judging similarities among objects, events, and experiences is one of the most basic cognitive abilities, allowing us to make predictions and generalizations. The main assumption ...
Symbols enable people to organize and communicate about the world. However, the ways in which symbolic knowledge is learned and then represented in the mind are poorly understood....
Michael Ramscar, Daniel Yarlett, Melody Dye, Katie...
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that la...