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Ability Differences and Cognitive Mapping Skill

1981
An Analysis of Cognitive Mapping Skill

1981
AUTOPILOT: A Distributed Planner for Air Fleet Control

1981
Distributed Intelligence for Air Fleet Control

1981
Scenarios for Evolution of Air Traffic Control

1981
Schema theory as a guide for educational research: white knight or white elephant?

1981
Selected research publications in cognitive science by RAND staff: 1979-1980

1981
Simulating Navigation for Spatial Knowledge Acquisition

1981
Spatial Learning and Reasoning Skill

1981
Decisionmaking During the Planning Process

1980
Differences in Spatial Knowledge Acquired from Maps and Navigation

1980
An evaluation of alternative functional models of narrative schemata

1980
Human Planning Processes

1980
Improving Team Performance: Proceedings of the RAND Team Performance Workshop

1980
Improving Training and Performance of Navy Teams: A Design for a Research Program

1980
The influence of visual-spatial ability and study procedures on map learning skill

1980
Performance Models for Spatial and Locational Cognition

1980
Spatial cognition and reasoning

1980
Children's use of schemata in comprehension and recall of narrative texts

1979
A critique of schemata as a theory of human story memory

1979
Distance estimation from cognitive maps

1979
Heuristics for knowledge acquisition from maps

1979
Human Processing of Knowledge from Texts: Acquisition, Integration and Reasoning

1979
Individual differences in knowledge acquisition from maps

1979
Knowledge acquisition from newspaper stories

1979
Selected research publications in cognitive science by RAND Staff: 1978-1979

1979
Strategies for map learning

1979
Training procedures for map learning

1979
Research on connected discourse: Structure, comprehension, and memory, a general bibliography: 1900-1977

1978
Integration of knowledge from text

1977
Knowledge transfer in learning from texts

1977
Pattern-directed processing of knowledge from texts

1977
The use of schemata in the acquisition and transfer of knowledge

1977
Cognitive Structures in Human Story Comprehension and Memory.

1975

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