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PIER Cohort: bryan matlen
Bryan Matlen, Psychology, (Advisors Anna Fisher, David Klahr)
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/people/matlen.html
Bryan graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in Psychology and is now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Dept of Psychology and PIER. Bryan’s research explores how children extend their knowledge, both to learn new things (analogical learning) or to make inferences about what is unknown (inductive inference). Towards these ends, he has been working with Anna Fisher and Karrie Godwin to examine the mechanisms underlying children’s category-based induction. In another line of research with David Klahr, Bryan has explored the instructional conditions that lead to robust application of science concepts (e.g. third-graders’ learning and transfer of simple experimental design). Recently, Bryan has been applying the structure-mapping theory of analogical reasoning to design instruction aimed at teaching relationally complex concepts in the elementary geoscience curriculum (e.g. plate tectonics). Bryan enjoys bbq-ing and trying to learn the banjo. He also likes the 80’s. All of it.
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