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Representational Change

Representational Change is a cognitive process in insight problem solving whereby the solver's mental model of a problem is restructured into a new, more productive configuration, distinguishing it from superficial strategy shifts by fundamentally altering the perceived elements, constraints, or relationships within the problem representation.

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Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 1.7K citations

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Alison Gopnik, Janet Wilde Astington · Child Development · 1988 · 1.2K citations

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Alison Gopnik, Janet Wilde Astington · Child Development · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography

Barbara Tedlock · Journal of Anthropological Research · 1991 · 786 citations

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The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2015 · 748 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. GK
    Günther Knoblich

    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. GJ
    Gary Jones

    Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 555 citations

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  3. MÖ
    Michael Öllinger

    Economic Research Service, United States

    6 publications · 502 citations

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  4. AH
    Amory H. Danek

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    5 publications · 427 citations

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  5. JE
    John E. Opfer

    The Ohio State University, United States

    5 publications · 659 citations

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Institutions

205

  1. Parmenides Foundation

    Pullach im Isartal, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    464 citations

  2. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    807 citations

  4. Nottingham Trent University

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    420 citations

  5. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Munich, Germany

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    362 citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    Leipzig, Germany

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    667 citations

  7. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    692 citations

  8. University of Massachusetts Boston

    Boston, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    160 citations

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  2. Child Development

    6 publications · 2.5K citations

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  3. The Journal of Problem Solving

    JPS · 4 publications · 220 citations

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 1.9K citations

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  5. Developmental Psychology

    4 publications · 284 citations

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