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Research and Development

Category: Play

Higher-order Theory of Mind

Art Intention and Interpretation edited by Gary Iseminger, Art, Intention, and Conversation by Noël Carroll, The Perception of Intention by Verena Dasser, Ib Ulbaek and David Premack, Design as Communication: Exploring the Validity and Utility of Relating Intention to Interpretation by Nathan Crilly, David Good, Derek Matravers and P. John Clarkson, Intention, Interpretation, and Contemporary […]

Educational Role-playing Games

Introduction Role-playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations edited by Sebastian Deterding and José Zagal, Psychology and Role-playing Games by Sarah L. Bowman and Andreas Lieberoth, The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity by Sarah L. Bowman, Learning and Role-playing Games by Jessica Hammer, Alexandra To, Karen Schrier, Sarah L. […]

Imagination and Learning

Transfer of Learning Transfer of Learning: Contemporary Research and Applications edited by Stephen M. Cormier and Joseph D. Hagman, The Cognitive Basis of Knowledge Transfer by Mary L. Gick and Keith J. Holyoak, Transfer of Learning: Cognition and Instruction by Robert E. Haskell, Theories of the Transfer of Learning by James M. Royer, Mechanisms of […]

Developmental Narratology

Introduction Developing Narrative Structure edited by Allyssa McCabe and Carole Peterson, Event Representations, Narrative Development and Internal Working Models by Katherine Nelson, Coherence, Cohesion, and Context: Some Comparative Perspectives in Narrative Development by Maya Hickmann, Narrative Development: Six Approaches by Michael G. Bamberg, How Children Understand Stories: A Developmental Analysis by Nancy L. Stein, Transformation […]

Adaptive Instructional Systems, Interactive Storytelling and Character Education

Introduction In response to calls for more rigorous approaches for character education programs and their evaluation (Person, Moiduddin, Hague-Angus, & Malone, 2009; Sojourner, 2012), interactive stories are indicated as being useful as exercises for both instructing and assessing learners. Adaptive instructional systems can administer these exercises to learners. To provide personalized and optimized instruction and […]

Artificial Intelligence and Play

Play Play and Development from an Ethological Perspective by Brian Vandenberg, Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution by Jerome S. Bruner, Alison Jolly and Kathy Sylva, Play and Exploration in Children and Animals by Thomas G. Power, Play and Child Development by Joe L. Frost, Sue C. Wortham and Robert S. Reifel, The Role […]

Artificial Mental Simulation

Cognitive Architectures The Architecture of Cognition by John R. Anderson, The Study of Cognitive Architecture by Zenon Pylyshyn, The Role of Cognitive Architecture in Theories of Cognition by Zenon Pylyshyn, Biologically Based Computational Models of High-level Cognition by Randall C. O’Reilly, A Survey of Bio‐inspired and Other Alternative Architectures by Dan Hammerstrom, Extending the Computational […]

Interactive Narrative and Interpretation

Interpretation Surveying Narratology by Sabine Gross, Narrative Theory and / or / as Theory of Interpretation by Tom Kindt and Hans-Harald Müller, Interpretation and Narrative Understanding by Louis O. Mink, Interpreting the Text: A Critical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Literary Interpretation by Kenneth M. Newton, Relevance Theory and Literary Interpretation by Anne […]

Education and the Cognitive Science of Writing

Teaching Writing and Narrative The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy M. Calkins, The Visuospatial Dimension of Writing by Thierry Olive and Jean-Michel Passerault, How an Understanding of Cognition and Metacognition Translates into More Effective Writing Instruction by Michael O'Brien-Moran and L. Karen Soiferman, Reading and Writing Relations and Their Development by Jill Fitzgerald and […]

Play, Role-playing Games, Improvisational Theatre and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Play Pretense: The Form and Function of Make-believe Play by Inge Bretherton, The Organization of Pretend Play by Catherine Garvey and Rita Berndt, Play, Cognitive Development, and the Social World: Piaget, Vygotsky, and Beyond by Ageliki Nicolopoulou, The Language of Social Pretend Play by Catherine Garvey and Thayer L. Kramer, Pretend Play Skills and the […]