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Cognition and learning: meeting the challenge of individual differences

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Recent advances in the cognitive sciences, and especially in the cognitive neurosciences, have made one thing abundantly clear -- there is no simple way to characterize, or localize, cognition. The journal Cognitive Psychology takes a typical approach to this problem; instead of directly defining cognitive psychology, the journal lists the kinds of processes that are commonly included -- memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking.

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            ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing Just Accepted
            September 2005
            70 pages
            ISSN:1558-2337
            EISSN:1558-1187
            DOI:10.1145/1102187
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