Lindsey Richland

Assistant Professor
Department of Education

email: lerich@uci.edu
phone: 949.824.8729
office: Education 2046
The Learning and Cognition Lab

Biography

Lindsey E. Richland earned her Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at UCLA and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive area of that Department before coming to UC Irvine.

Research

Dr. Richland's research focuses on the development of higher order reasoning, learning, and memory. In one set of projects she is investigating the mechanisms underlying children's development of thinking and learning. In a second set of projects she is examining alternative instructional strategies and the implications for learning and memory. In a third set of projects she is analyzing cross-cultural differences in teachers' organization of learning opportunities, and the effects of variable training conditions on retention and transfer.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Strategies for promoting analogical transfer, long-term effects of alternative feedback styles, cross-cultural differences in problem solving.

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

We are currently looking for research assistants in our lab! If you are interested, please contact Dr. Richland (lerich@uci.edu)

Publications

Richland, L.E. (in press).  Ethnography and Cognitive Psychology: Shared Dilemmas of the Local and Unlocatable. Political and Legal Anthropology.

Richland, L.E., Zur, O., Holyoak, K. (2007). Cognitive supports for Analogies in the Mathematics Classroom. Science, 316, pp.1128-1129.

Richland, L.E., Bjork, R.A., Linn, M.C. (2007). Cognition and Instruction: Bridging Laboratory and Classroom Settings.  In F. Durso, R. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky & T. Perfect (Eds). Handbook of Applied Cognition, 2nd Edition. 

Richland, L.E., Holyoak, K.J.; McDonough, I. (2007). Improving Discrimination between Relevant and Irrelevant Transfer Problems through Instructional Comparisons. Papers of the American Education Research Association annual meeting. Chicago, IL.

Richland, L.E., Morrison, R.G., & Holyoak, K.J. (2006). Children’s Development of Analogical Reasoning: Insights from Scene Analogy Problems. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Richland, L.E., Zur, O. & Holyoak, K.J. (2005). Cross-Cultural Differences in Use of Comparisons: Imagery and Visual Cues. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1149-1154. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Morrison, R.G., Doumas, L.A.A., Richland, L.E. (2006). The development of analogical reasoning in children: A computational account. In, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Richland, L.E., Holyoak, K.J., & Stigler, J. W. (2004). Analogy generation in eighth grade mathematics classrooms. Cognition and Instruction. 22 (1), pp.37-60.

Richland, L.E., Bjork, R.A., Finley, J.R., Linn, M.C. (2005). Linking cognitive science to education: generation and interleaving effects.  In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.