Kurt W. Fischer

Notable publications

• Fischer, K. W.. A theory of cognitive development: The control and construction of hierarchies of skills. Psychological Review, 87, 477-531.
• Fischer, K. W., Shaver, P., & Carnchan, P.. A skill approach to emotional development: From basic- to subordinate-category emotions. In W. Damon, Child development today and tomorrow. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Fischer, K. W., & Rose, S. P.. Dynamic development of coordination of components in brain and behavior: A framework for theory and research. In G. Dawson & K. W. Fischer, Human behavior and the developing brain.. New York: Guilford Press.
• Fischer, K. W., Ayoub, C., Singh, I., Noam, G., Maraganore, A., & Raya, P.. Psychopathology as adaptive development along distinctive pathways. Development & Psychopathology, 9, 749-779.
• Fischer, K. W., & Bidell, T. R.. Dynamic development of action, thought, and emotion. In R. M. Lerner, Handbook of child psychology. Vol 1: Theoretical models of human development. New York: Wiley.
• Fischer, K. W., Daniel, D., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Stern, E., Battro, A., & Koizumi, H. Why Mind, Brain, and Education? Why Now? Mind, Brain, and Education, 1, 1-2.
• Fischer, K. W., & Fusaro, M.. Using student interests to motivate learning. In R. P. Fink & J. Samuels, Inspiring success: Reading interest and motivation in an age of high-stakes testing. Newark DE: International Reading Association.
• Fischer, K. W., Bernstein, J. H., & Immordino-Yang, M. H.. Mind, brain, and education in reading disorders. Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
• Battro, A.M., Fischer, K.W., & Lena, P.. Visual learning and the brain: Lessons from dyslexia. Mind, Brain, and Education, 1, 127-137.
• Fischer, K.W., & Immordino-Yang, M.H. The fundamental importance of the brain and learning for education. In Jossey-Bass reader on the brain and learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Stein, Z., Dawson, T., & Fischer, K. W.. Redesigning testing: Operationalizing the new science of learning. In M. S. Khine & I. M. Saleh, New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education. New York: Springer.
• Fischer, K. W., & Heikkinen, K.. The future of educational neuroscience. In D. A. Sousa, Mind, brain, and education: Neuroscience implications for the classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.