Fostering general transfer with specific simulations

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-42

  Son, Ji Y ^a   Goldstone, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Analogy; Complex systems; Concreteness; Generalization; Grounded learning; Learning; Science education; Simulation; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047683161     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.17.1.01son     Document Type: Article

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