Individual artistic creativity has no place in the development of art, science, or society. If an intellectual has a thorough understanding of intellectual traditions and appreciation of the situation, s/he needs to be no more than reasonable to produce what have been hitherto considered products of genius. (MT)

Illustrates how the punchline finds the flaw in the system, but the system remains operable. (EL)

Twelve mildly mentally retarded and 12 MA-matched nonretarded individuals were tested for speed and accuracy in responding to questions requiring different processing depth and then given an unexpected recognition task. Retarded individuals required progressively more encoding time relative to nonretarded individuals as processing depth increased.…

Study suggests that the level of performance may depend on the capacity (increasing with age) of the short-term memory store. (Editor)

According to Sir Herbert Read, the best form of art results from the workings of the unconscious mind. (CK)

The performance of 18 neurocognitively impaired learning disabled children (6 to 10 years old) on visual abstraction was compared to that of 20 intact learning disabled (LD) and 20 normal children. The Abstraction Test for Children was specifically developed and standardized as the measure of abstraction. (Author)

Samples of children and young adolescents were asked what the word "Change" meant to them and their responses were analyzed to discover the degree of understanding shown by different age groups. Results are reported and discussed. (Author/CT)

Twenty-one male and 21 female adolescents were tested individually for conservation of mass, weight, and volume. (CM)

Discusses how people bridge chasms of thought with insubstantial but named fictions to make it possible to cross them in imagination. (HOD)

Discusses two meanings of abstract: abstract-apart, ideas removed from reality; and abstract-general, ideas general to a wide variety of contexts. Suggests that greater interest in abstraction as a process, instead of just a product, would be beneficial to mathematics education theory and practice. (48 references) (MKR)

Identifies and explores the difficulties in the novice mathematician's encounter with mathematical abstraction. Observes 20 first-year mathematics undergraduates and extracts sets of episodes from the transcripts of the tutorials and interviews within five topics in pure mathematics. Discusses issues related to the learning of one mathematical…

The fundamental relations that underlie cognitive comparisons--''same'' and ''different''--can be defined at multiple levels of abstraction, which vary in relational complexity. We compared response times to decide whether or not two sequentially-presented patterns, each composed of two pairs of colored squares, were the same at three levels of…

Four experiments explored participants' understanding of the abstract principles governing computer simulations of complex adaptive systems. Experiments 1, 2, and 3 showed better transfer of abstract principles across simulations that were relatively dissimilar, and that this effect was due to participants who performed relatively poorly on the…