As part of a series based on the APA Science Conferences promoting a multidisciplinary campaign, this volume comprises 18 contributions by leading experimental psychologists working in such areas of cognition as learning, memory, information processing, and knowledge representation. Healy (U. of Colorado at Boulder) notes that the book also honors basic research in this field by three retiring faculty members from her campus: Lyle Bourne, Walter Kintsch, and Thomas Landauer. Conference symposia laud their respective achievements in such areas as domain-specific conceptual learning, models of comprehension, and user-centered computer systems. Other chapters discuss such applications as improving education, distinguishing true from false memories, and understanding cultural aspects of intelligence. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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