Publications of Thomas Lachmann


Selected peer-reviewed publications

in internationally indexed journals and edited book series

Recent

Prölß, A., Lachmann, T., & Klatte, M. (2013). Wirkungen von Hintergrundgeräuschen auf Arbeitsgedächtnisleistungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen. Hörakustik, 1, 32-34.

Jaarsveld, S., Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2012). Creative reasoning across developmental levels: Convergence and divergence in problem creation. Intelligence, 40, 172–188.
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Lachmann, T., Khera, G., Srinivasan, N., & van Leeuwen, C. (2012). Learning to read aligns visual analytical skills with grapheme-phoneme mapping: Evidence from illiterates. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 4:8. Doi: 103389/fnevo.2012.00008
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Steinbrink, C., Klatte, M. & Lachmann, T. (2012). Auch ein förderdiagnostisches Verfahren sollte valide sein! - Replik zu den Stellungnahmen von Dummer-Smoch (2012), Lehmann-Breuer (2012) und Ruoho und Hotulainen (2012) zu Steinbrink et al. (2010). Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 44 (2), 99-105.
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Steinbrink, C., Groth, K., Lachmann, T., & Riecker, A. (2012). Neural correlates of temporal auditory processing in dyslexia during German vowel length discrimination: An fMRI study. Brain and Language, 121, 1-11.
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Groth, K., Lachmann, T., Riecker, A., Muthmann, I., & Steinbrink, C. (2011). Developmental dyslexics show deficits in the processing of temporal auditory information in German vowel length discrimination. Reading and Writing, 24, 285-303.
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2009 - 2010

Lachmann, T., Steinbrink, C., Schumacher, B., & van Leeuwen, C. (2010). Different letter-processing strategies in diagnostic subgroups of developmental dyslexia occur also in a transparent orthography: Reply to a commentary by Spinelli et al. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 759-768.
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Klatte, M., Lachmann, T., Schlittmeier, S., & Hellbrück, J. (2010). The irrelevant sound effect in short-term memory: Is there developmental change? European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22 (8), 1168-1191.
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Jaarsveld, S., Lachmann, T., Hamel, R., & van Leeuwen, C. (2010). Solving and Creating Raven Progressive Matrices: Reasoning in Well and Ill Defined Problem Spaces. Creativity Research Journal, 22, 304-319.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2010). Representational economy, not processing speed, determines preferred processing strategy. Acta Psychologica, 134, 290-298.
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Steinbrink, C., Schwanda, S., Klatte, M., & Lachmann, T. (2010). Sagen Wahrnehmungsleistungen zu Beginn der Schulzeit den Lese-Rechtschreiberfolg in Klasse 1 und 2 voraus? – Zur prognostischen Validität der Differenzierungsproben 1 und 2 nach Breuer und Weuffen [Do perceptual abilities at school entry predict reading and spelling abilities at the end of Grade 1 and 2? – Investigating the predictive validity of the Differenzierungsproben 1 and 2 by Breuer and Weuffen]. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 42 (4) 188-200.
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Klatte, M., Lachmann, T., & Meis, M. (2010). Effects of noise and reverberation on speech perception and listening comprehension of children and adults in a classroom-like setting. Noise and Health: Special issue on Noise, Memory and Learning, 12 (49), 270-282.
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Steinbrink, C., Ackermann, H., Lachmann, T., & Riecker, A. (2009). Contribution of the anterior insula to temporal auditory processing deficits in developmental dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 2401-2411.
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Boenke, L., Ohl, F., Nikolaev, A., Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2009). Different time courses of Stroop and Garner effects in perception - an Event-Related Potentials Study. NeuroImage, 45, 1272-1288.
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Lachmann, T., Schumacher, B., & van Leeuwen, C. (2009). Controlled but independent: Effects of Mental Rotation and Developmental Dyslexia in Dual Task Settings. Perception, 38, 1019-1034.
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2007 - 2008

Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2008). Different letter-processing strategies in diagnostic subgroups of developmental dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 730-744.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2008). Differentiation of holistic processing in the time course of letter recognition. Acta Psychologica, 129, 121-129.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2008). Goodness is central: Task-invariance of perceptual organization in a dual-task setting. Japanease Psychological Research, 50(4), 193-203.
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Jincho, N., Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2008). Dissociating congruence effects in letters versus shapes: Kanji and kana. Acta Psychologica, 129, 138-146.
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Lachmann, T. (2008). Experimental approaches to specific disabilities in learning to read: The case of Symmetry Generalization in developmental dyslexia. In N. Srinivasan, A. K. Gupta, & J. Pandey, Advances in Cognitive Science 321-342. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Lachmann, T., Schumacher, B., Jöbges, M., Hummelsheim, H., & van Leeuwen, C. (2008). Procedural learning eliminates specific slowing down of response selection in patients with idiopathic Parkinson syndrome. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30, 319-326.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2007). Paradoxical enhancement of letter recognition in developmental dyslexia. Developmental Neuropsychology, 31, 61-77.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2007). Goodness takes effort: perceptual organization in dual-task settings. Psychological Research, 71(2), 152-169.
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Rusiak, P., Lachmann, T., Jaskowski, P., & van Leeuwen, C. (2007). Mental rotation of letters and shapes in developmental dyslexia. Perception, 36, 617-631.
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2005 - 2006

Becker, C., Elliott, M., & Lachmann, T. (2005). Evidence for impaired visuoperceptual organization in developmental dyslexics and its relation to temporal processes. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 499-522.
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Lachmann, T., Berti, S., Kujala, T., & Schröger, E. (2005). Diagnostic subgroups of developmental dyslexia have different deficits in neural processing of tones and phonemes. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 56, 105-120.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2005). Individual pattern representations are context-independent, but their collective representation is context-dependent. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 58, 1265-1294.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2005). Task-invariant aspects of goodness in perceptual representation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 58, 1295-1310.
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2003 - 2004

Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2004). Negative congruence effects in letter and pseudo-letter recognition: the role of similarity and response conflict. Cognitive Processing, 5, 239-248.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2004). Memory-guided inference in same-different comparison tasks. In C. Kaernbach, E. Schröger, & H. J. Müller (Eds.), Psychophysics beyond sensation: Laws and invariants of human cognition (pp. 199-221). Hilldale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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van Leeuwen, C., & Lachmann, T. (2004). Negative and positive congruence effects in letters and shapes. Perception and Psychophysics, 6, 908-925.
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van Leeuwen, C., & Lachmann, T. (2004). Negative and positive congruence effects in letters and shapes. Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 24, http://L.u-tokyo.ac.jp/AandC.
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Lachmann, T., & Geyer, T. (2003). Letter reversals in developmental dyslexia: Is the case really closed? A critical review and conclusions. Psychology Science, 45, 53-75.
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2001 - 2002

Friederici, A. D., & Lachmann, T. (2002). From language to reading and reading disability: Cognitive functions and their neural basis. In E. Witruk, A. D. Friederici, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Basic functions of language, reading and reading disability (pp. 9-21). Boston: Kluwer / Springer.
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Lachmann, T., & Geissler, H.-G. (2002). Memory search instead of template matching? Representation-guided inference in same-different performance. Acta Psychologica, 111, 19-43.
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Lachmann, T. (2002). Reading disability as a deficit in functional coordination and information integration. In E. Witruk, A. D. Friederici, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Basic functions of language, reading and reading disability, (pp. 165-198). Boston: Kluwer / Springer.
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Lachmann, T., Friederici, A. D., & Witruk, E. (2002). Introduction to basic functions of language, reading and reading disability. In E. Witruk, A. D. Friederici, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Basic functions of language, reading, and reading disability (pp. 3-8). Boston: Kluwer / Springer.
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Pre 2001

Berti, S., Geissler, H.-G., Lachmann, T., & Mecklinger, A. (2000). Event-related brain-potentials dissociate visual working memory processes under categorical and identical comparison conditions. Cognitive Brain Research, 9, 147-155.
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Lachmann, T. (2000). Vergleichen und Erkennen: Vorgänge im Gedächtnis bei der visuellen Relationserkennung (V. Sarris, M. Amelang, N. Birbaumer, F. Strack, & F. Wilkening, Eds.). Psychologia Universalis, Band 22. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
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Ruthruff, E., Miller, J. O., & Lachmann, T. (1995). Does mental rotation require central mechanisms? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 552-570.
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Chapters in edited books and full text proceedings

Brito Castilho Wesseling, P., & Lachmann, T. (2011). Leitura Dialogica e suas influencias. In Revista Galego-Portuguesa de Psicholoxia e Educacion, Actas do XI Congreso International Galego-Portugues de Psicopedagoxia, 3225-3230.
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Lachmann, T., Khera, G., & van Leeuwen, C. (2011). Congruence effects in letters versus shapes: The rule of literacy. In D. Algom et al. (eds.), Proceedings for the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 463-468). Tel Aviv: ISP.
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Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2010). Representational economy, not processing speed, determines preferred processing strategy of visual patterns. In A. Bastianelli et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 477-482). Padova: ISP.
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Klatte, M., & Lachmann, T. (2009). Viel Lärm ums Lernen: Akustische Bedingungen in Klassenräumen und ihre Bedeutung für den Unterricht. In: Arnold, R., Schüßler, I., & Müller, H.J. (Hg.). Grenzgänge(r) der Pädagogik. Festschrift für Joachim Münch. S. 141-156. Battmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.
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Schinauer, T., & Lachmann, T. (2009). Order preferences as a function of size and orientation of the display. In Proceedings of the ISP. Galway: Ireland.
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Becker, C., Lachmann, T., & Elliott, M. (2001). Evidence for impaired integration-segmentation processes and effects of oscillatory synchrony on stimulus coding in developmental dyslexics. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 273-278). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Brendler, K., & Lachmann, T. (2001). Letter reversals in the context of the Functional Coordination Deficit Model of developmental dyslexia. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 308-313). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
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Fuchs, S., & Lachmann, T. (2003). Functional coordination deficit in children with developmental dyslexia. In B. Berglund & E. Borg (Eds.), Fechner Day 2003 (pp. 87-90). Stockholm: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Geissler, H.-G., Kompass, R., & Lachmann, T. (1998). Ultra-precise pacemaker mechanisms: On converging evidence from movement perception and reaction time paradigms. In S. Grondin, Y. Lacouture, & R. Rousseau (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 178-183). Quebec: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Geissler, H.-G., & Lachmann, T. (1996). Memory-guided inference in matching tasks: Symmetries and the case of inferred sets. In S. C. Masin (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 119-124). Padua: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Geissler, H.-G., & Lachmann, T. (1997). Processing spatial symmetry: Evidence of two distinct components in visual comparison. In A. Preis (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 165-170). Poznan: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Geyer, T., Müller, H., von Mühlenen, A., & Lachmann, T. (2001). Parallel inhibitory marking in visual search. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 373-378). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Lachmann, T. (1996). Informationsverarbeitung beim visuellen Vergleich. Beiträge zur wissenschaftlichen Diskussion, 15, 5-113.

Lachmann, T. (2001). Strategies of coding and processing in a physical same-different task. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 98-104). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Lachmann, T. (2002). Relative frequency of single item affects on category level: New evidence for representation-guided inference in the perception of visual structure. In J. A. Da Silva (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 446-451). Rio de Janeiro: Editora legis summa.

Lachmann, T., Berti, S., Kujala, T., Rusiak, P., Sobieralska, K., & Schröger, E. (2004). Psychophysical and neurophysiological approaches to learning disabilities and education. In A. Oliveira (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 436-439). Lisbon: ISP.

Lachmann, T., & Geissler, H.-G. (1999). Frequency effects in a categorical same-different task point to collective pattern codes. In P. R. Kileen & W. R. Uttal (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 138-143). Phoenix: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Lachmann, T., & Pataki, K. (2001). Does stimulus complexity affect central mechanisms? In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 487-492). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Lachmann, T. (2005). Diagnostik und Förderung bei Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche. In T. Lachmann (Ed.), Bildungspolitische Grundlagen für die Diagnose und Förderung von Kindern mit Lese- und Rechtschreibstörung (pp. 7-11). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Lachmann, T., & Pataki, K. (2002). Contrast and complexity independently affect central capacity-limited mechanisms. In J. A. Da Silva (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 452-457). Rio de Janeiro: Editora legis summa.

Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2004). Basic functions of reading: Feature integration in letter recognition. In N. Srinivasan et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference of Cognitive Science (on CD). Allahabad, India: Center for Behavioural and Cognitive Science.

Rusiak, P., Lachmann, T., & Jaskowski, P. (2003). Mental rotation of letters in dyslexics and implications for diagnosis and educational treatment. In B. Berglund & E. Borg (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 263-268). Stockholm: The International Society for Psychophysics.
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Pophal-Töfke, D., Gottlebe, K., Böning, C., Köhler, A., & Lachmann, T. (2005). Die Sächsische Verwaltungsvorschrift zur Förderung von Kindern mit Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche: Einordnung in die aktuelle Lage der LRS-Erlasse der Bundesländer und deren praktische Umsetzung. In T. Lachmann (Ed.), Bildungspolitische Grundlagen für die Diagnose und Förderung von Kindern mit Lese- und Rechtschreibstörung (pp. 63-94). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Lachmann, T., & van Leeuwen, C. (2009). Differentiation of holistic processing in the time course of letter recognition. In M. Elliott et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 305-310). Galway: ISP.
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Lachmann, T. (2006). We learn more than we see: Group-code effects in the processing of structural information. In E. Witruk, & J. Lander (Eds.), Experimental exploration of memory structures (pp. 91-105). Aachen: Shaker.
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Schröger, E., Widmann, A., Kujala, T., Tervaniemi, M., Lachmann, T., Berti, S., & Schröger, H. (2004). Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung audiovisueller Verarbeitung bei Dyslexie. In Verband Dyslexie Schweiz (Hsg.), Lesen kann doch jeder - oder doch nicht? Zürich: Verband Dyslexie Schweiz.

Lachmann, T. (2007). Basic determinants of specific disabilities in reading: Experimental exploration of component functions in reading and of deficits in their coordination. Volume 1 of Lachmann, T. (Ed.) Experimental exploration of learning and learning disabilities. University of Kaiserslautern Press.

Koether, R., Schumacher, B., Scheller, K., van Leeuwen, C., & Lachmann, T. (2008). The relation between speed of visual-auditory integration and General Intelligence in dyslexics and normal reading children. In S. Mori, T. Miyaoka, & W. Wong (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting of the ISP (pp. 357-362). Tokyo: ISP.


Monographs

Lachmann, T. (1995). Determinanten der Informationsverarbeitung beim visuellen Vergleich transformativ verbundener Stimuli. Diplomarbeit an der Universität Leipzig.

Lachmann, T. (1998). Repräsentationsgeleitete Suchprozesse der visuellen Relationserkennung. Dissertationsschrift an der Universität Leipzig.

Lachmann, T. (2003). Basic Determinants of Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading: Experimental Exploration of Component Functions in Reading and Deficits in their Coordination. Habilitationsschrift an der Universität Leipzig.
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Editorships

Geissler, H.-G., & Lachmann, T. (Eds.) (1996). Abstracts of the international conference on short-term storage and processing in human cognition: Dynamic characteristics and neural mechanisms. Leipzig: Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie und Zentrum für Höhere Studien der Universität Leipzig.

Witruk, E., & Lachmann, T. (Eds.) (1999). Abstracts of the international conference on Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
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Sommerfeld, E., Kompass, R., & Lachmann, T. (Eds.) (2001). Fechner Day 2001. Proceedings of the International Society for Psychophysics. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
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Witruk, E., Friederici, A. D., & Lachmann, T. (Eds.) (2002). Basic functions of reading and reading disability., Neuropsychology and Cognition Series. Boston: Kluwer / Springer.
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Lachmann, T., & Witruk, E. (Eds.) (2003). Language and dyslexia. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Lachmann, T. (Ed.) (2005). Bildungspolitische Grundlagen für die Diagnose und Förderung von Kindern mit Lese- und Rechtschreibstörung. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Lachmann, T. (2007). Basic determinants of specific disabilities in reading: Experimental exploration of component functions in reading and of deficits in their coordination. Volume 1 of Lachmann, T. (Ed.) Experimental exploration of learning and learning disabilities. University of Kaiserslautern Press.
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Jaarsveld, S. (2007). Creative cognition: New perspectives on creative thinking. Volume 2 of Lachmann, T. (Ed.) Experimental exploration of learning and learning disabilities. University of Kaiserslautern Press.
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Wiese, L. (2008). Early social learning: Neuronal correlates of social referencing in infants. Volume 3 of Lachmann, T. (Ed.) Experimental exploration of learning and learning disabilities. University of Kaiserslautern Press.