Patrick Cushen   Graduate Student   1029 BSB    Department of Psychology    University of Illinois at Chicago    1007 W Harrison St (MC 285)    Chicago IL 60607    E-Mail: pcushe2@uic.edu

  Presentations and Publications:

Ash, I. K., Cushen, P. J., & Wiley (accepted pending revision).Obstacles in investigating the role of restructuring in “insightful” problem solving.  Journal of Problem Solving.

Cushen, P.J. & Wiley, J. (2008). Upsides and downsides of gesturing in problem solving Proceedings of the 30^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Cushen, P.J. & Wiley, J. (May, 2008). Gesture and problem solving: Not always a 'helping' hand. Poster presented at the 20^th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, IL. May 22-25.   <>

Cushen, P.J. & Wiley, J. (May, 2008). The nature of restructuring and the “Aha!” experience in insight problem solving. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL. May 1-3.

Cushen, P. J. & Wiley, J. (2007) Evidence for incremental restructuring in a spatial insight problem. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Colflesh, G. J. H, Cushen, P. & Wiley, J. (2007) Why do working memory tasks predict Raven’s performance? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Insight, Problem Solving, Conceptual Change, Working Memory Capacity and Gesture

          Cognitive Science Society
          Psychonomic Society 
          Midwestern Psychological Association 

  Other stuff:

          Wiley Eyetracking and Cognition Laboratory