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| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL 61801 |
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| e-mail: wbrewer@uiuc.edu |
Educational History:
B.A. 1963 - Harvard College, magna cum laude
Ph.D. 1967 - University of Iowa (Experimental Psychology; Neuropsychology)
Postdoctoral Associate 1967-1969 - Univ. of Minnesota (Ct. for Res. in Human
Learning)
Professional History:
1996 Visiting Scholar, Psychology Institute
University of Aarhus, Denmark
1996 Sabbatical, MRC Applied Psychology Unit,
Cambridge, England
1989 Sabbatical, MRC Applied Psychology Unit,
Cambridge, England
1989- Professor, Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1983- Professor, Department of Psychology (50%)
Research Professor, Institute of Communications Res. (50%)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1979-1980 Co-Director, Center for the Study of Reading,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1978 Sabbatical, Center for Human Information Processing,
University of California, San Diego
1975-1983 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (50%)
Research Associate Professor, Inst. Communications Res. (50%)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1969-1975 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology (50%)
Research Assistant Professor, Inst. Communications Res. (50%)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scholarships and Fellowships:
Forskerakademiet (Danish Research Academy), Selected to give three days
of lectures on the Psychology of Science, Ebeltoft, Denmark, June, 1996.
IREX (International Research and Exchange Board) award to attend Third
Hungarian-American Conference on Psychology of Literature, Budapest, 1987.
NEH Fellow, Institute on Psychology and Philosophy of Mind,
Seattle, Washington, Summer 1981
NSF Travel Award to attend the 9th Attention and Performance Conference,
Christ College, Cambridge, England, Summer 1980
USPHS Postdoctoral Trainee, Center for Research in Human Learning,
University of Minnesota, 1969
USPHS Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1966-67
Awards and Honors:
Magna cum laude, Harvard College
Sigma Xi
Fellow, Division 3, American Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Grants:
2/87 - 2/92 O.E.R.I. Grant for Reading Research and Education
Center (five sections written by WFB)
8/85 - 1/89 NSF Research Grant BNS-85 10254 "Knowledge
Acquisition in the Domain of Astronomy." (Co-PI S. Vosniadou)
10/85- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and
Technology (Cognitive Science section written by WFB)
9/81 - 9/86 NIE-R-81-0002 Center for the Study of Reading
(three major sections written by WFB)
5/77 - 5/81 NIMH Research Grant MH 29562 "Episodic Memory for
Events and Places."
9/76 - 9/81 NEW-NIE-C-400-76-0116 Center for the Study of
Reading (5% of proposal written by WFB)
Professional Societies:
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
British Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society
Cognitive Science Society
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
ACM: Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Philosophy of Science Association
History of Science Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
Cheiron: International Society for the History of Behavioral and Soc. Sciences
American Educational Research Association
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
National Association for Research in Science Teaching
Society for the Study of the Short Story
International Reading Association
Society for Text and Discourse
Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft
Society for Research in Child Development
International Imagery Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of University Professors
Recent Major Conference Invitations:
International Workshop on Modelling Cognition,
Lancaster, U.K., July, 1985.
Second Hungarian-American Conference on the Psychology of Literature, San
Francisco, August, 1985.
Second Annual Emory Cognition Conference, Atlanta, October, 1985.
Third International Conference on Thinking, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 1987
Conference on Language, Learning and Perception, University. of South Florida,
January, 1987.
Second International Conference on Practical Aspects of Memory, Swansea,
Wales, August, 1987.
Third Hungarian-American Conference on the Psychology of Literature, Budapest,
August, 1987.
Conference on Inference Generation During Discourse Comprehension, Memphis
State University, March 1988.
Conference on Affect and Flashbulb Memories (Emory Cognition Project), Atlanta,
February, 1990.
Conference on Autobiographical Memory and the Validity of Retrospective
Reports (SRL, Urbana; ZUMA, Mannheim), Allerton Park, IL, November, 1990.
International Conference on Memory, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K.,
July, 1991.
International Conference on the Learning Sciences (Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education), Northwestern University, August, 1991.
Interfaces Conference: Categorization and Category Learning by Humans and
Machines, Texas Tech University, October, 1991.
Third International Conference on the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL),
Memphis State University, May, 1992.
Second International Conference on the Short Story, Department of English,
Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa, June, 1992.
Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, July, 1992.
Conference on Memory for Everyday and Emotional Events, University of Chicago,
May, 1993.
Conference on Methods of Determining Cognitive Processes Used to Answer
Questions (SRL, Urbana; ZUMA, Mannheim), Allerton Park, IL, November, 1993.
Third International Conference on Practical Aspects of Memory, University
of Maryland, August, 1994.
Fourth International Conference on the Empirical Study of Literature, Budapest,
August, 1994.
First Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition,
Vancouver, Canada, July, 1995.
Fourth European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 1995.
Conference on the Acquisition of Reasoning, University of Memphis, September,
1995.
Tenth Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society , History and
Philosophy of Psychology, York, U.K., April, 1996.
British Psychological Society, Brighton, U.K., April, 1996.
NATO Advanced Study Institute, Port de Bourgenay, France, June 15-25, 1996.
Second International Conference on Memory, Padova, Italy, July, 1996.
Publications--Chronological List:
Brewer, W. F. (1963). Specific language
disability: Review of the literature and family study. Honors thesis, Harvard
College. [cf. Lenneberg, E. H. (1967). Biological foundations of language.
New York: Wiley. pp. 249-251.]
Brewer, W. F. (1968). Discussion. In J. F. Kavanagh (Ed.), Communicating
by language: The reading process (pp. 209-211). Bethesda, MD:
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Brewer, W. F. (1969). Visual memory, verbal encoding and hemispheric localization.
Cortex, 5, 145-151.
Schuell, H., Shaw, R., & Brewer, W. (1969). A psycholinguistic approach
to study of the language deficit in aphasia. Journal of Speech and Hearing
Research, 12, 794-806.
Brewer, W. F. (1971). Dyslexia: Neurological and genetic etiology. In E.O.
Calkins (Ed.), Reading forum (pp. 47-54). NINDS Monograph No. 11.
Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Health.
Brewer, W. F. (1972). Is reading a letter-by-letter process? In J. F. Kavanagh
and I. G. Mattingly (Eds.), Language by ear and by eye: The relationships
between speech and reading (pp. 359-365). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Harris, R. J., & Brewer, W. F. (1973). Deixis in memory for verb tense.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 12, 590-597.
Brewer, W. F., & Lichtenstein, E. H. (1974). Memory for marked semantic
features versus memory for meaning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal
Behavior, 13, 172-180.
Brewer, W. F., & Harris, R. J. (1974). Memory for deictic elements in
sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13,
321-327.
Brewer, W. F. (1974). There is no convincing evidence for operant or classical
conditioning in adult humans. In W. B. Weimer & D. S. Palermo (Eds.),
Cognition and the symbolic processes (pp. 1-42). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1974). Reconstructive recall in sentences
with alternative surface structures. Journal of Experimental Psychology,
103, 837-843.
Brewer, W. F. (1974). The problem of meaning and the interrelations of the
higher mental processes. In W. B. Weimer & D. S. Palermo (Eds.), Cognition
and the symbolic processes (pp. 263-298). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F., & Lichtenstein, E. H. (1975). Recall of logical and pragmatic
implications in sentences with dichotomous and continuous antonyms. Memory
& Cognition, 3, 315-318.
Brewer, W. F., & Stone, J. B. (1975). Acquisition of spatial antonym
pairs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 19, 299-307.
Brewer, W. F. (1975). Memory for ideas: Synonym substitution. Memory
& Cognition, 3, 458-464.
Brewer, W. F. (1976). Is reading a letter-by-letter process? A discussion
of Gough's paper. In H. Singer & R. B. Ruddell (Eds.), Theoretical
models and processes of reading (2nd ed.) (pp. 536-542). Newark, DE:
International Reading Association.
Schweller, K. G., Brewer, W. F., & Dahl, D. A. (1976). Memory for illocutionary
forces and perlocutionary effects of utterances. Journal of Verbal Learning
and Verbal Behavior, 15, 325-337.
Brewer. W. F. (1977). Memory for the pragmatic implications of sentences.
Memory & Cognition, 5, 673-678.
Thieman, T. J., & Brewer, W. F. (1978). Alfred Binet on memory for ideas.
Genetic Psychology Monographs, 97, 243-264.
Akiyama, M. M., Brewer, W. F., & Shoben, E. J. (1979). The yes-no question
answering system and statement verification. Journal of Verbal Learning
and Verbal Behavior, 18, 365-380.
Brewer, W. F. (1980). Literary theory, rhetoric, stylistics: Implications
for psychology. In R. J. Spiro, B. C. Bruce, & W. F. Brewer (Eds.),
Theoretical issues in reading comprehension (pp. 221-239). Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Lichtenstein, E. H., & Brewer, W. F. (1980). Memory for goal-directed
events. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 412-445.
Spiro, R. J., Bruce, B. C., & Brewer, W. F. (Eds.). (1980). Theoretical
issues in reading comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive psychology,
linguistics, artificial intelligence, and education. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1980). Comprehension and memory of the
literal and figurative meaning of proverbs. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 9, 59-72.
Brewer, W. F., & Treyens, J. C. (1981). Role of schemata in memory for
places. Cognitive Psychology, 13, 207-230. [picture]
Brewer, W.F., & Lichtenstein, E. H. (1981). Event schemas, story schemas,
and story grammars. In J. Long & A. Baddeley (Eds.), Attention and
performance IX (pp. 363-379). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F. (1981). Review of G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of
learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. 13).
Contemporary Psychology, 26, 761-762.
Brewer, W. F. (1982). Personal memory, generic memory, and skill: A re-analysis
of the episodic-semantic distinction. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 112-113.
Zehler, A. M., & Brewer, W. F. (1982). Sequence and principles in article
system use: An examination of A, The, and Null in acquisition. Child
Development, 53, 1268-1274.
Brewer, W. F. (1982). Plan understanding, narrative comprehension, and story
schemas. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
262-264.
Brewer, W. F., & Lichtenstein, E. H. (1982). Stories are to entertain:
A structural-affect theory of stories. Journal of Pragmatics, 6,
473-486.
Brewer, W. F., & Dupree, D. A. (1983). Use of plan schemata in the recall
and recognition of goal-directed actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 117-129.
Brewer, W. F. (1983). Form, content, and affect in the theory of stories.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 595-596.
Brewer, W. F., & Pani, J. R. (1983). The structure of human memory.
In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances
in research and theory (Vol. 17, pp. 1-38). New York: Academic Press.
Jose, P. E., & Brewer, W. F. (1984). The development of story liking:
Character identification, suspense, and outcome resolution. Developmental
Psychology, 20, 911-924.
Brewer, W. F., & Hay, A. E. (1984). Reconstructive recall of linguistic
style. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 23,
237-249.
Brewer, W. F., & Nakamura, G. V. (1984). The nature and functions of
schemas. In R. S. Wyer & T. K. Srull (Eds.), Handbook of social cognition
(Vol. 1, pp. 119-160). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F. (1985). The story schema: Universal and culture-specific properties.
In D. R. Olson, N. Torrance, & A. Hildyard (Eds.), Literacy, language,
and learning: The nature and consequences of reading and writing (pp.
167-194). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1985). Discourse structure and mental
models In T. H. Carr (Ed.), The development of reading skills. New directions
in child development No. 27 (pp. 55-75). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Brewer, W. F., & Ohtsuka, K. (1986). A történetszerkezet
és az olvasói érzelmek amerikai és magyar elbeszélésekben.
[Story structure and reader affect in American and Hungarian short stories]
Pszichológia, 6, 593-618.
Brewer, W. F. (1986). What is autobiographical memory? In D. Rubin (Ed.),
Autobiographical memory (pp. 25-49). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Ahn, W-K., Mooney, R. J., Brewer, W. F., & DeJong, G. F. (1987). Schema
acquisition from one example: Psychological evidence for explanation-based
learning. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, 50-57.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1987). Theories of knowledge restructuring
in development. Review of Educational Research, 57, 51-67.
Brewer, W. F. (1987). Schemas versus mental models in human memory. In P.
Morris (Ed.), Modelling cognition (pp. 187-197). Chichester: Wiley.
Brewer, W. F., & Ohtsuka, K. (1988). Story structure and reader affect
in American and Hungarian short stories. In C. Martindale (Ed.), Psychological
approaches to the study of literary narratives (pp. 133-158). Hamburg:
Buske.
Ahn, W.-K., & Brewer, W. F. (1988). Similarity-based and explanation-based
learning of explanatory and nonexplanatory information. Proceedings of
the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 524-530.
Brewer, W. F., & Ohtsuka, K. (1988). Story structure, characterization,
just world organization, and reader affect in American and Hungarian short
stories. Poetics, 17, 395-415.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1988). The restructuring of knowledge
in development. Contemporary Education, 39, 35-45. (in Greek).
Brewer, W. F. (1988). Qualitative analysis of the recalls of randomly sampled
autobiographical events. In M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes
(Eds.), Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues
(Vol. 1, pp. 263-268). Chichester: Wiley.
Brewer, W. F. (1988). Memory for randomly sampled autobiographical events.
In U. Neisser & E. Winograd (Ed.), Remembering reconsidered: Ecological
and traditional approaches to the study of memory (pp. 21-90). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Brewer, W. F. (1988). Imagery and text genre. Text, 8, 431-438.
Brewer, W. F., & Ohtsuka, K. (1989). A történetszerkezet,
a jellemzés, az igazságos világszervezödés
és az olvasói affektusok amerikai és magyar novelláknál.
[Story structure, characterization, just world organization, and reader
affect in American and Hungarian short stories] Pszichológia,
9, 85-98.
Brewer, W. F. (1989). The activation and acquisition of knowledge. In S.
Vosniadou & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and analogical reasoning
(pp. 532-545). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jose, P. E., & Brewer, W. F. (1990). Early grade school children's liking
of script and suspense story structures. Journal of Reading Behavior,
22, 355-372.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1990) A cross-cultural investigation
of children's conceptions about the earth, the sun, and the moon: Greek
and American data. In H. Mandl, E. DeCorte, N. Bennett, & H. F. Friedrich
(Eds.), Learning and instruction: European research in an international
context (pp. 605-629). Oxford: Pergamon.
Brewer, W. F., & Samarapungavan, A. (1991). Children's theories vs.
scientific theories: Differences in reasoning or differences in knowledge?.
In R. R. Hoffman & D. S. Palermo (Eds.), Cognition and the symbolic
processes: Applied and ecological perspectives (pp. 209-232). Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F., & Chinn, C. A. (1991). Entrenched beliefs, inconsistent
information, and knowledge change. In L. Birnbaum (Ed.), Proceedings
of the 1991 International Conference on the Learning Sciences (pp. 67-73).
Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Ahn, W-k., Brewer, W. F., & Mooney, R. J. (1992) Schema acquisition
from a single example. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 18, 391-412.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1992). Psychological responses to anomalous
data. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 165-170). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F., & Lambert, B. L. (1992). The theory-ladenness of observation:
Evidence from cognitive psychology. International Journal of Psychology,
27, 526.
Brewer, W. F. (1992). The theoretical and empirical status of the flashbulb
memory hypothesis. In E. Winograd, & U. Neisser (Eds.), Affect and
accuracy in recall: Studies of "flashbulb" memories (pp. 274-305).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ohtsuka, K., & Brewer, W. F. (1992). Discourse organization in the comprehension
of temporal order in narrative texts. Discourse Processes, 15,
317-336.
Brewer, W. F. (1992). Phenomenal experience in laboratory and autobiographical
memory tasks. In M. A. Conway, D. C. Rubin, H. Spinnler, & W. Wagenaar
(Eds.), Theoretical perspectives on autobiographical memory (pp.
31-51). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1992). Mental models of the earth: A
study of conceptual change in childhood. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 535-585. [figure]
Brewer, W. F., & Lambert, B. L. (1993). The theory ladenness of observation:
Evidence from cognitive psychology. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 254-259). Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Ahn, W-K., & Brewer, W. F. (1993). Psychological
studies of explanation-based learning. In G. DeJong (Ed.). Investigating
explanation-based learning (pp. 295-316). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1993). The role of anomalous data in
knowledge acquisition: A theoretical framework and implications for science
instruction. Review of Educational Research, 63, 1-49.
Vicente, K. J., & Brewer, W. F. (1993). Reconstructive remembering of
the scientific literature. Cognition, 46, 101-128.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1993). Factors
that influence how people respond to anomalous data. Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 318-323). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Vicente, K. J., & Brewer, W. F. (1993, October).
La mémoire trompeuse des scientifiques. La Recherche, No.
258, 1176-1177.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1993). Constraints
on knowledge acquisition: Evidence from children's models of the earth and
the day/night cycle. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1052-1057). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F. (1993). What are concepts? Issues of representation and ontology.
In G. V. Nakamura, R. M. Taraban, & D. L. Medin (Eds.), The psychology
of learning and motivation (Vol. 29): Categorization by humans and
machines (pp. 495-533). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Brewer, W. F., & Pani, J. R. (1983). The structure of human memory.
In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances
in research and theory (Vol. 17, pp. 1-38). New York: Academic Press.
Reprinted in: P. E. Morris & M. A. Conway (Eds.) (1993), The psychology
of memory.(Vol. 3, pp. 53-90). (International Library of Critical Writings
in Psychology). New York: New York University Press.
Dorfman, M. H., & Brewer, W. F. (1994). Understanding
the points of fables, Discourse Processes, 17, 105-129
Brewer, W. F. (1994). Autobiographical memory and survey research. In N.
Schwarz & S. Sudman (Eds.), Autobiographical memory and the validity
of retrospective reports. (pp. 11-20). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1994). Mental models of the day/night
cycle. Cognitive Science, 18, 123-183.
Brewer, W. F., & Chinn, C. A. (1994). The theory-ladenness of data:
An experimental demonstration. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 61-65). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F., & Chinn, C. A. (1994). Scientists' responses to anomalous
data: Evidence from psychology, history, and philosophy of science. PSA
1994, (Vol. 1) (pp. 304-313), East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science
Association.
Brewer, W. F. (1994). Charles Egerton Osgood: 1916-1991. American Journal
of Psychology, 107, 583-596.
Brewer, W. F. (1995). Discourse force and empirical studies of literature.
In G. Rusch (Ed.), Empirical approaches to literature. (LUMIS Publications,
Special Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 89-95). LUMIS Publications, Siegen, Germany.
Brewer, W. F. (1995). To assert that essentially all human knowledge and
memory is represented in terms of stories is certainly wrong. In R. S. Wyer,
Jr. (Ed.), Knowledge and memory: The real story. Advances in Social Cognition. Vol. 8 (pp. 109-119). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F. (1995). The problem of rereading for theories of story enjoyment.
In G. Rusch (Ed.), Empirical approaches to literature. (LUMIS Publications,
Special Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 298-303). LUMIS Publications, Siegen, Germany.
Birch, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1995). The fate of originally presented
surface information following recall errors in sentence memory tasks. European
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 7, 145-167.
Brewer, W. F. (1996). The nature of narrative suspense and the problem of
rereading. In P. Vorderer, H. J. Wulff, & M. Friedrichsen (Eds.), Suspense:
Conceptualizations, theoretical analyses, and empirical explorations
(pp. 107-127). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Samarapungavan, A., Vosniadou, S., & Brewer, W. F. (1996). Mental models
of the earth, sun, and moon: Indian children's cosmologies. Cognitive
Development, 11, 491-521.
Brewer, W. F. (1996). Good and bad story endings and story completeness.
In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature
and aesthetics (pp. 261-271). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Brewer, W. F. (1996). What is recollective memory? In D. C. Rubin (Ed.),
Remembering our past: Studies in autobiographical memory (pp. 19-66).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1996). Mental models in data interpretation.
Philosophy of Science, 63, S221-S219.
Brewer, W. F., & Pani, J. R. (1996). Reports of mental imagery in retrieval
from long-term memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 265-287.
Brewer, W. F. (1997). Children's eyewitness memory research: Implications
from schema memory and autobiographical memory research. In N. L. Stein,
P. A. Ornstein, B. Tversky, & C. Brainerd (Eds.), Memory for everyday
and emotional events (pp. 453-466). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brewer, W. F. (1997). [Review of the book, D. C. Rubin, Memory in oral
traditions]. Contemporary Psychology, 42, 581-582.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1998). Theories of knowledge acquisition. In B. J. Fraser, & K. G. Tobin (Eds.), International handbook of science education (Vol. 1, pp. 97-113) Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
Brewer, W. F. (1998). Short story structure and affect: Evidence from cognitive psychology. In B. Lounsberry, S. Lohafer, M. Rohrberger, S. Pett, & R. C. Feddersen (Eds.), The tales we tell: Perspectives on the short story (pp. 157-164). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (1998). An empirical test of a taxonomy of responses to anomalous data in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 35, 623-654.
Brewer, W. F., Chinn, C. A., & Samarapungavan, A. (1998). Explanation in scientists and children. Mind and Machines, 8, 119-136.
Brewer, W. F., & Mishra, P. (1998). Science. In W. Bechtel & G. Graham (Eds.), A companion to cognitive science. (pp. 744-749). Oxford: Blackwell.
Brewer, W. F. (1998). A few anecdotes about those wonderful ideas. In: Essays to celebrate Noam Chomsky's 70th birthday. http://mitpress.mit.edu/celebration/
Brewer, W. F. (1999). Schemata. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 729-730). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Brewer, W. F. (1999). Scientific theories and naive theories as forms of mental representation: Psychologism revived. Science & Education, 8, 489-505.
Brewer, W. F. (1999). Bartlett, Frederic Charles. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 66-67). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Brewer, W. F. (1999). Perceptual symbols: The power and limitations of a theory of dynamic imagery and structured frames. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 611-612.
Brewer, W. F. (2000). Bartlett's concept of the schema and its impact on theories of knowledge representation in contemporary cognitive psychology. In A Saito (Ed.), Bartlett, culture and cognition. (pp. 69-89). Psychology Press.
Brewer, W. F., Chinn, C. A., & Samarapungavan, A. (in press). Explanation in scientists and children. In F. C. Keil & R. A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Brewer, W. F. (in press). Bartlett, functionalism, and modern schema theories. Journal of Mind and Behavior.
Chinn, C. A., & Brewer, W. F. (in press). Knowledge change in response to data in science, religion, and magic. In K. S. Rosengren, C. N. Johnson, & P. L. Harris (Eds.), Imagining the impossible: Children's thinking about magic, science, and religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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