SILC Publications, etc.
SILC generated work is below:
SILC Publications
- Boyer, T., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher (in preparation). Development of proportional reasoning: Where young children go wrong.
- Boyer, T. Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March). Proportional reasoning: Intuition, problem representation and problem-solving success. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Devleopment. Boston, Massachusetts.
- Cannon, J., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Early play with jigsaw puzzles predicts preschoolers' spatial skill: A longitudinal investigation. Manuscript in preparation.
- Cannon, J., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March). Are young children part-whole thinkers? Children's strategies for solving proportional equivalence problems. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Reseaerch on Child Development. Boston, Masachusetts.
- Davies, C. & Uttal. D. H. (2007). Map use and the development of spatial cognition. In J. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The Emerging Spatial Mind (pp. 219-247). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Edelson, D. C., Smith, D. A., & Brown, M. (in press). Beyond interactive mapping: bringing data analysis with GIS into the social studies classroom. In A. J. Millson & M. Alibrandi (Eds.), Digital Geography: Geo-spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
- Ehrlich, S.B., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1259-1268.
- Feist, M.I., & Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes. Memory and Cognition, 35, 283-296.
- Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial cognition in apes and humans. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 11, 192-194.
- Gentner, D., & Bowerman, M. (in press). Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, S. Özçaliskan, & K. Nakamura (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. NJ, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2006). Using numbers to structure space. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (in press). Comparison facilitates children's learning of names for parts. Journal of Cognition and Development.
- Jameson, J. & Gentner, D. (2006, July). Systematicity as a processing constraint on feature centrality. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancover, Canada.
- Jeong, Y., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). The development of proportional reasoning: Effect of continuous versus discrete quantities. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 237-256.
- Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Using qualitative representations and analogical mapping to solve problems from a spatial intelligence test. Proceedings of the 21st International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Aberystwyth, U.K.
- Lovett, A. Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Analogy with qualitative spatial representations can simulate solving Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.
- Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (April, 2006). A developmental perspective on the influence of gesture on spatial representation. Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.
- Uttal, D. H., Liu, Linda L., Lewis, A., & Gentner, D. (in press). Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents. Developmental Science.
- Uttal, D. H., & O'Doherty, K. (in press). Comprehending and learning from visual representations: A developmental approach. In J. Gilbert (Ed.), Visualization in Science Education. New York: Springer.
SILC Presentations
- Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Sex differences in the relation between puzzle play and mental transformation skill. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
- Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2007, May). Relational similarity and the identity relation. European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
- Edelson, D. (2007, March). Investigations in environmental science: A case-study of research-driven curriculum design. Invited talk, School of Education and Woods Environmental Institute. Stanford University.
- Edelson, D. (2007, March). Teaching science that matters. Featured Speaker, WNET/Thirteen Celebration of Teaching and Learning. New York, NY.
- Edelson, D. (2007, April). My World GIS: A geographic information system for students, novices, and occasional users. Colloquium Presentation, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy. Loyola University Chicago.
- Edelson, D. (2007, May). Designing software to support inquiry learning; Designing activities to support learning through inquiry. Keynote Address, Technology-integrated Science and Engineering Education II Workshop, National Taiwan Normal University. Taipei, Taiwan.
- Edelson, D. (2007, May). Learning-for-use in Earth Science: Fostering knowledge students will use. Keynote Address, First Earth Science Education Conference, Taiwan Geosciences Assembly. Taipei, Taiwan.
- Forbus,K. (2007, Februaury). SILC overview. Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research Meeting, Evanston, IL.
- Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2007, May). Learning new relations via structural alignment. Invited symposium on Analogical Processes, European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
- Gentner, D., Christie, S., Anggoro, F., & Namy, L. (2007, October). Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society.
- Gentner, D., Ozurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Gurcanli, O. (2006). Does lack of conventional language hamper children's spatial cognition? Presented at the Symposium on Thinking with and without language, European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
- Kern, E., Uttal, D., Murashev, N., & Lui Hand, L. (2007, May). Helping hands: The role of gesture in spatial learning. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
- Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. Workshop on Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, TN.
- Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing spatial representations of variable detail for sketch recognition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. Palo Alto, CA.
- Marulis, L. M., Hand, L. L., Warren, C. M., & Uttal, D. H. (2007, April). Effects of training or experience on spatial cognition in children and adults: A Metaanalysis. Presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development. Boston, MA.
- Sagi, E., Lovett, A., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism of comparison. Workshop on Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (AnICA 07). Nashville, TN.
- Schaal, A., Murashev, N., Sauter, M. Kern, M. & Uttal, D. (2007, March) Words and hands: How children and adults communicate spatial information. Poster Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference. Boston, MA.
- Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (April, 2006). Words, gestures and maps: Developmental changes in the integration of spatial information. Paper presented at Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.
- Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2007, November). Finding the middle ground: Does language help children reason about spatial relations? Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
- Uttal, D. (2007, June). What we know about using GIS to enhance spatial thinking. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the ESRI Education Users' Group. San Diego, CA.
- Uttal, D., Sauter, M., Shaal Alman, A., Yang, S-J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007, June). The hands show the way: Gesture and the development of spatial communication. Paper Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Chicago, IL.
- Uttal, D., Shaal Alman, A., Yang, S-J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (June 2007). The hands show the way: Gesture and the development of spatial communication. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Chicago, Illinois.
- Warren, C. M., Uttal, D. H., Hand, L. L., & Friedman, A. () Home is where you make it: Students' mental representations of their college campus. Presented at the annual meeting of the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium. Chicago, Illinois.
SILC Generated Resources
- Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Spatial language coding system: Parent-child interactions in structured-activities.
- Cannon, J., Levine, S., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). A system for analyzing children and caregivers' language about space in structured and unstructured contexts. Technical report.
- SILC Teacher Work Circle. Report on the learning of measurement in the early years: Key difficulties and recommendations for curricular enhancements.