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Cognitive Skills

Cognitive Skills is a construct in human capital theory that refers to the mental capabilities and processes—such as reasoning, problem solving, memory, attention, and comprehension—that enable individuals to acquire, process, and apply knowledge in various learning and work contexts.

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Cognitive Capacities

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Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus, Lotfi A. Zadeh · IEEE Expert · 1987 · 3.2K citations

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How College Affects Students: Findings and Insights From Twenty Years of Research.

John C. Weidman, Ernest T. Pascarella, Patrick T. Terenzini · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1992 · 3.1K citations

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Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age

Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 1998 · 2.7K citations

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Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective.

Claire B. Kopp · Developmental Psychology · 1982 · 1.8K citations

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Motivation and cognitive abilities: An integrative/aptitude-treatment interaction approach to skill acquisition.

Ruth Kanfer, Phillip L. Ackerman · Journal of Applied Psychology · 1989 · 1.7K citations

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Authors

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  1. EA
    Eric A. Hanushek

    Hoover Institution, United States

    33 publications · 3.2K citations

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  2. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    20 publications · 8K citations

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  3. JJ
    James J. Heckman

    University of Chicago, United States

    17 publications · 6.4K citations

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  4. LW
    Ludger Woessmann

    Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany

    19 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. UZ
    Uri Zoller

    Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel

    15 publications · 904 citations

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Institutions

3.4K

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    37 h-index

    91 publications

    14.3K citations

  2. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    34 h-index

    83 publications

    6.1K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    34 h-index

    115 publications

    6.7K citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    30 h-index

    65 publications

    14.9K citations

  5. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    29 h-index

    77 publications

    6K citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    28 h-index

    72 publications

    7.2K citations

  7. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    69 publications

    4.5K citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    27 h-index

    88 publications

    5K citations

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  1. Journal of Educational Psychology

    61 publications · 10K citations

    45

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    83 publications · 3.7K citations

    35

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 72 publications · 4.4K citations

    31

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 90 publications · 4.1K citations

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  5. Child Development

    39 publications · 4.2K citations

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