Kevin Dunbar

Running head: Concept discovery in a Scientific Domain Address all correspondence to: (2008)

Kevin Dunbar, Kevin Dunbar

Concept Discovery in a Scientific Domain The scientific reasoning strategies used to discover a new concept in a scientific domain were investigated in two studies. An innovative task in which...

in London (2008)

Isabelle Blanchette, Kevin Dunbar

Laboratory studies of analogical reasoning have shown that subjects are mostly influenced by superficial similarity in the retrieval of source analogs. However, real-world investigations have...

Scientists Build Models InVivo Science as a Window on the Science Mind (1999)

Kevin Dunbar, Kevin Dunbar

How do scientists think, reason and generate new models and theories? How do scientists represent their knowledge? Answers to these questions are of paramount importance not only in understanding...

Developmental Differences in Scientific Discovery Processes. (1998)

Dunbar, Kevin, Klahr, David

The purpose of the three studies reported here was to formulate a framework for understanding the development of scientific reasoning processes. Subjects were placed in a simulated scientific...

Designing Good Experiments to Test Bad Hypotheses. (1998)

Klahr, David, Dunbar, Kevin, Fay, Anne L.

What does it take to design a good experiment? Given an hypothesis to be evaluated -- either in isolation or in competition with alternatives -- what formal rules, heuristics, and pragmatic...

Dual Space Search during Scientific Reasoning. (1998)

Klahr, David, Dunbar, Kevin

The purpose of the two studies reported here was to develop an integrated model of the scientific reasoning process. Subjects were placed in a simulated scientific discovery context by first teaching...

Are There Developmental Milestones in Science Reasoning? (1998)

Fay, Anne L., Klahr, David, Dunbar, Kevin

This paper presents a conceptual framework that integrates studies on scientific reasoning that have been conducted with different age subjects and across different experimental tasks. Traditionally,...

On the Control of Automatic Processes: A Parallel Distributed Processing Account of the Stroop Effect. (1998)

Cohen, Jonathan D., Dunbar, Kevin, McClelland, James L.

A growing body of evidence suggests that traditional views of automaticity are in need of revision. For example, automaticity has often been treated as an all-or-none phenomenon, and traditional...

On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed processing account of the Stroop effect (1990)

Jonathan D. Cohen, James L. Mcclelland, Kevin Dunbar

Traditional views of automaticity are in need of revision. For example, automaticity otten has been treated as an all-or-none phenomenon, and traditional ~es have held that automatic processes are...

Problem Solving (1988)

Kevin Dunbar, Kevin Dunbar, Kevin Dunbar

In the movie “The Gold Rush ” Charlie Chaplin and his “friend ” are stranded in a log cabin in the middle of winter while a blizzard rages. The cabin is isolated and they have a very big...