David R. Olson

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According to Wikipedia, David Richard Olson is a Canadian cognitive developmental psychologist who has studied the development of language, literacy, and cognition, particularly the mental lives of children, their understanding of language and mind and the psychology of teaching. Olson is University Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1966.

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Developing theories of mind (1988) (1146)
From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing (1977) (1022)
Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (1996) (709)
The Handbook of education and human development : new models of learning, teaching, and schooling (1996) (574)
Language and thought: aspects of a cognitive theory of semantics. (1970) (480)
Literacy, Language, and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing (1985) (339)
The Handbook of Education and Human Development (1998) (282)
Developing theories of intention : social understanding and self-control (1999) (246)
The relation between acquisition of a theory of mind and the capacity to hold in mind. (1998) (245)
Literacy and Orality (1991) (181)
On the Language and Authority of Textbooks (1980) (180)
Learning through experience and learning through media (1973) (166)
The Social foundations of language and thought : essays in honor of Jerome S. Bruner (1980) (163)
Cognitive development: The child's acquisition of diagonality (1970) (154)
The language of schooling (1982) (145)
Literacy, Language and Learning (1986) (143)
The History of Writing (136)
On the comprehension of active and passive sentences (1972) (133)
Reflecting on scientific thinking: children's understanding of the hypothesis-evidence relation. (1993) (132)
The Triumph of Hope Over Experience in the Search for “What Works”: A Response to Slavin (2004) (124)
Talking about text (1990) (116)
Towards a psychology of literacy: on the relations between speech and writing (1996) (114)
Media and Symbols: The Forms of Expression, Communication, and Education (1974) (110)
Spatial Cognition: The Structure and Development of Mental Representations of Spatial Relations (1983) (107)
Memory and inference in the comprehension of oral and written discourse (1978) (100)
On the origins of beliefs and other intentional states in children. (1988) (98)
The ABCs of Deception: Do Young Children Understand Deception in the Same Way as Adults?. (1993) (98)
Thinking About Thinking: Learning How to Take Statements and Hold Beliefs (1993) (95)
The Cognitive Consequences of Literacy (1986) (92)
THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTION (1970) (90)
Information Technology and Education (1986) (88)
Language, Literacy, and Mental States. (1987) (83)
Spatial and verbal rivalry in a Stroop-like task. (1975) (81)
The elaboration of the noun phrase in children's description of objects (1975) (80)
Chinese children's understanding of false beliefs: the role of language (1999) (78)
The Development of Representations: The Origins of Mental Life (1993) (76)
Children's understanding of the relation between expressions (what was said) and intentions (what was meant) (1983) (76)
The making of literate societies (2001) (75)
Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society (2003) (73)
Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Language: Learning to Talk about Thought (1990) (72)
Working memory and children's developing understanding of mind (1998) (64)
The Cognitive Revolution in Children’s Understanding of Mind (1995) (62)
Children's Ascriptions of Knowledge to Others. (1989) (60)
Literacy and Children's Conception of Words (1999) (59)
Folk Psychology and Folk Pedagogy (2018) (58)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (2009) (56)
Modes of thought : explorations in culture and cognition (1996) (56)
Computers As Tools of the Intellect (1985) (52)
Scripts and literacy : reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries, and characters (2012) (51)
Making up your mind. (1989) (48)
Oral and Written Language and the Cognitive Processes of Children. (1977) (48)
Symbols and texts as tools of intellect (1977) (44)
Oral Discourse in a World of Literacy (2006) (42)
HOW WRITING REPRESENTS SPEECH (1993) (40)
Oral Language Competence and the Acquisition of Literacy. (1982) (40)
Jerome Bruner: The Cognitive Revolution in Educational Theory (2014) (39)
What Writing Does to the Mind (2002) (39)
Representation and Communication in Development@@@Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development: The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication (2003) (35)
Mind and media: the epistemic functions of literacy (1988) (34)
Children's story-retelling (1983) (34)
Children's Representational Theory of Language:The Problem of Opaque Contexts (1999) (34)
When Do Children Begin to Understand Logical Inference as a Source of Knowledge (1994) (34)
Children's understanding of visual ambiguity (1991) (33)
A theory of reading/writing: from literacy to literature (2009) (32)
Towards a theory of instructional means 1 (1976) (31)
Development of the metalanguage and the acquisition of literacy: A progress report (1987) (29)
Children's acquisition of metalinguistic and metacognitive verbs (1986) (29)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: The Literacy Episteme: From Innis to Derrida (2009) (28)
What writing is (2001) (28)
Trick or treat: Children's understanding of surprise (1993) (27)
Young children and the say/mean distinction: verbatim and paraphrase recognition in narrative and nursery rhyme contexts (2001) (26)
The Mind on Paper: Reading, Consciousness and Rationality (2016) (25)
Education and literacy (2009) (25)
Mining the human sciences: Some relations between hermeneutics and epistemology (1986) (25)
Language Development through the School Years: Learning to Confine Interpretation to the Information in the Text. (1977) (24)
What Is Worth Knowing and What Can Be Taught (1973) (24)
Literacy, narrative and culture (2002) (23)
Seeing and knowing: on the ascription of mental states to young children. (1987) (22)
Or What's a Metaphor For? (1988) (21)
The Quotation Theory of Writing (2014) (20)
Interpreting Texts and Interpreting Nature: The Effects of Literacy on Hermeneutics and Epistemology. (1988) (19)
It is written. (1990) (19)
Minds in the Making Essays in Honor of David R. Olson (2000) (19)
Writing and the mind (2013) (19)
An introduction to understanding literacy (1987) (18)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: LITERACY AND EDUCATION (2009) (18)
Common sense : the foundations for social science (1987) (18)
On the mental representation of oblique orientation. (1977) (18)
Orality and literacy: A symposium in honor of David Olson (2006) (17)
Language and Literacy: what writing does to Language and Mind (1996) (17)
On a theory of instruction: Why different forms of instruction result in similar knowledge (1972) (17)
Information-processing limitations of mentally retarded children. (1971) (15)
Children's Understanding of Referentially Opaque Contexts: The Role of Metarepresentational and Metalinguistic Ability (2009) (15)
Scripts and Literacy (2012) (14)
Thinking about representations: the case of opaque contexts. (2011) (14)
History of Schools and Writing (2007) (14)
The Mental Verbs in Different Conceptual Domains and in Different Cultures (2006) (14)
Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society : Implications of the Work of Jack Goody (2013) (14)
Text and Talk. (1989) (14)
Rethinking the Goody Myth (2013) (13)
Conceptualizing the Written Word (1995) (13)
Literacy and the making of the Western mind (1994) (12)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Literacy, Literacy Policy, and the School (2009) (12)
Emotionally loaded words and the acquisition of a sight vocabulary. (1966) (12)
The contexts of comprehension: On children's understanding of the relations between active and passive sentences (1977) (12)
Preschool children conflate pragmatic agreement and semantic truth (2013) (11)
Self-ascription of intention: responsibility, obligation and self-control (2007) (11)
The Languages of Instruction: The Literate Bias of Schooling (2017) (11)
MORAL REASONING AND MORAL CONCERNS : AN ALTERNATIVE TO GILLIGAN'S GENDER BASED HYPOTHESIS (1995) (11)
Structuring Reflection: Teaching Argument Concepts and Strategies Enhances Critical Thinking (1997) (10)
Encoding Ability in Teacher-Student Communication Games. (1969) (10)
Technology and Intelligence in a Literate Society (2005) (10)
An Introduction to Reading the World’s Scripts (1995) (9)
Between realism and nominalism: learning to think about names and words. (2001) (9)
THE PARADOX OF CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT: A CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (2001) (9)
On reading poetry: Expert and novice knowledge (2004) (9)
A structuralist view of explanation: a critique of Brainerd (1978) (8)
Sources of Authority in the Language of the School: A Response to "Beyond Criticism.". (1983) (8)
Literacy and cognitive development: a conceptual transformation in the early school years (2017) (7)
On the Designing and Understanding of Written Texts (1985) (7)
Literacy and the comprehension and expression of literal meaning (1983) (7)
Assent and Compliance in Children’s Language Comprehension (1978) (7)
Book Selection: A National Plan for Small Academic Libraries. (1971) (7)
Some relations between children's knowledge of metalinguistic and metacognitive verbs and their linguistic competencies (1986) (7)
The Development of Children's Understanding of the Evidence for Beliefs (1993) (7)
NOTE ON HASLERUD AND MEYERS' TRANSFER-OF-PRINCIPLES EXPERIMENT. (1965) (6)
Children's recall of spatial orientation of objects. (1969) (6)
Talking About Text and the Culture of Literacy (1997) (6)
Intentionality and Theories of Intentionality in Development (6)
Where redescriptions come from (1994) (6)
The role of concepts in perception and inference (1993) (6)
WRITING, THE DISCOVERY OF LANGUAGE, AND THE DISCOVERY OF MIND (2013) (5)
Theory of mind in young human primates: Does Heyes's task measure it? (1998) (5)
Language, Literacy and Mind: The Literacy Hypothesis (2009) (5)
Variety of Exemplars versus Linguistic Contexts in Concept Attainment in Young Children. (1971) (5)
On the structure and meaning of prose text (1982) (5)
Mass media versus schoolmen: The role of themeans of instruction in the attainment of educational goals (1974) (5)
Knowledge and its Artifacts (2004) (5)
Thinking about interpretation: A reply to Snyder (1990) (5)
A Question of More or Less. (1977) (5)
Education: the Bridge from Culture to Mind (2001) (5)
The Mind According to Bruner@@@Actual Minds, Possible Worlds@@@Acts of Meaning (1992) (4)
Introduction: Actions, intentions, and attributions: Social understanding and self-control (1999) (4)
Knowledge and Responsibility (2014) (4)
Literacy and the languages of rationality (2013) (4)
Introduction: What is a culture of literacy? (2013) (4)
Quechua Children's Theory of Mind. (1991) (4)
Book Reviews: The Mind According to Bruner (1992) (4)
The uses of evidence in accident analysis by professionally versus scientifically trained investigators (2009) (4)
Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (2011) (4)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAREPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS IN FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, HISTORY AND MATHEMATICS (2000) (4)
Cultural learning and educational process (1993) (4)
Assent and Compliance in Children’s Language Comprehension (1978) (4)
Interpretation and the Autonomy of Written Texts. (1989) (4)
Whatever Happened to Pedagogical Theory (2010) (3)
The written representation of negation (1997) (3)
Critical Thinking: Learning to Talk about Talk and Text (1997) (3)
The Role of the Arts in Cognition (1983) (3)
Schooling and the Development of Literacy (2005) (3)
Sociocultural studies of mind: Writing and the mind (1995) (3)
Texts, Technology, and Thinking: Lessons from the Great Divide. (2001) (3)
Preserved mid-fusiform activation for visual words in a patient with a visual word recognition impairment (2014) (2)
Writing Systems, Language Production, and Modes of Rationality (2014) (2)
Possible Minds: Reflections on Bruner’s Recent Writings on Mind and Self (1990) (2)
Young Children's Understanding of the Continuity of Biologically Determined Behavior When Appearances Change. (2001) (2)
Explaining school failure. (1993) (2)
The Seventy-Third Year-Book of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part I (1975) (2)
Reflective Thinking in Educational Settings: Schooling and Literacy in Mind and Society (2014) (2)
Teacher-Student Communication Games: Some Experiments on Instruction. (1972) (2)
What writing is all about. (1990) (2)
Children's Categorical Representation of Oblique Orientation (1982) (2)
Shaping Literacy Policy: From Abstract Ideals to Accountable Practices (2005) (2)
Forms of comprehension of texts (1982) (2)
The understanding of mental verbs in different conceptual domains and in different cultures (2006) (2)
Mind, Media, and Memory: The Archival and Epistemic Functions of Written Text (1988) (2)
Writing Systems, Psychology of (2001) (1)
Narrative, cognition, and rationality (2011) (1)
Literacy and the Technologies of Knowing (2015) (1)
Literacy, rationality, and logic: The historical and developmental origins of logical discourse (2012) (1)
HISTORY OF WRITING, HISTORY OF RATIONALITY (2016) (1)
C. Television and the development of social behavior (1976) (1)
The Teacher as Communicator: An Aspect of Teacher Effectiveness. (1969) (1)
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading (2017) (1)
Roy Harris, Rethinking writing. London: Athlone Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 254. Hb $39.95. (2002) (1)
From Depiction to Notation: How Children use Symbols to Represent Objects and Events (2012) (1)
The enemy without — A review of E.V. Sullivan'sA Critical Psychology (1985) (1)
How children create knowledge (1998) (1)
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism@@@The Social Construction of Literacy.@@@The Social Context of Literacy.@@@Literacy, Language, and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing.@@@Literacy in Theory and Practice. (1987) (1)
The consequences of television (1981) (1)
The State of Research on Literacy@@@Literacy and Schooling@@@Literacy, Society and Schooling@@@Literacy, Language, and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing (1988) (1)
The Computational Mind and the Digitized Society: A Question of Rules (2005) (1)
19. What is literacy? And what is a literate disability? (2018) (1)
McLuhan: Preface to Literacy. (1981) (1)
Book Reviews : Roger Chartier Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 (1997) (1)
Institutions Are Real but Internalization Is Not (1998) (1)
Aboriginal literacy (1994) (1)
In what sense does intelligence underlie an intelligent performance? (1984) (1)
The Cognitive Science of Metarepresentation (2017) (0)
CONCEPTUALIZING CONCEPTUALIZING: THE DIAGONAL AS AN INTERESTING PROBLEM (1970) (0)
Reprising John Dewey: A Review of Andreas Demetriou, George Spanoudis & Antigoni Mouyi's “Educating the Developing Mind: Towards an Overarching Paradigm” (2011) (0)
On the Use and Misuse of Literacy: Comments on “The Mind on Paper” (2020) (0)
8 Spatial cognition: the mental (1982) (0)
Afterword (2013) (0)
Understanding that looking causes knowing (1996) (0)
On Reaching Profundity (1982) (0)
A. The means of instruction in the attainment of educational goals (1976) (0)
Vygotsky and the Vygotskians (2017) (0)
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Rationality (2017) (0)
Commonsense mentalism and psychological theory (1987) (0)
The Testing of Rationality and the Rationality of Testing (2017) (0)
THE NATURE OF THE DIFFICULTY (1970) (0)
Maritime Domain Awareness. (2006) (0)
In Memoriam: Jerome Bruner (1915–2016). Polymath and pioneer in cognitive development and education / In Memoriam: Jerome Bruner (1915–2016). Erudito y pionero del desarrollo cognitivo y la educación (2017) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Preface (2009) (0)
PERSONAL AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ACQUISITION OF THE DIAGONAL IN EAST AFRICA (1970) (0)
The Discovery of Words and Thinking about Words (2017) (0)
5 A New Mentality (1997) (0)
Introduction: Rethinking the Role of Psychology in Education (2018) (0)
Inventing Writing: The History of Writing and the Ontogeny of Writing (2017) (0)
Afterword (2020) (0)
Book reviewPredicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking, R.J. Bogdan, MIT Press (2009), 184 pp (2009) (0)
Dieter Stein (ed.), Cooperating with written texts: the Pragmatics and comprehension of written texts . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. Pp. vii, 701. Hb DM 288.00. (1994) (0)
Phonemes and the Alphabet (2017) (0)
Back Matter (1974) (0)
“Did I mean what I said?” — A reply to McCormick (1993) (0)
Modes of Discourse, Modes of Rationality (2016) (0)
Characterizing Literacy: A Study of Western and Indian Literacy Experiences (2005) (0)
Book Selection : A National Plan for Sinall Acadeinic Libraries (2012) (0)
The Literate Native Speaker: Some Intellectual Consequences of the Language of Schooling (1981) (0)
On Learning to Write. (1983) (0)
B. Cognitive effects of visual media (1976) (0)
Dewey and the New Pragmatists: Reading, Writing and Mind (2017) (0)
Reading Poetry (2004) (0)
Hormann, Hans. Psycholinguistics — An introduction to Research and Theory. English translation by: R.H. Stern New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971Hormann, Hans. Psycholinguistics — An introduction to Research and Theory. English translation by: R.H. Stern New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971. (1973) (0)
Afterword Whatever Happened to the Toronto School (2008) (0)
Texts That Talk: The Special and Peculiar Nature of Classroom Discourse and the Crediting of Sources (2017) (0)
Prose and Rational Argument (2017) (0)
On the virtue of discourse of the soul with itself. (1990) (0)
On the Use and Misuse of Literacy: Comments on “The Mind on Paper” (2020) (0)
Two cheers for literacy: Walter Ong, President Trump and the literate mind (2022) (0)
Perspectives: Children's Language and Language Teaching. (1983) (0)
Aboriginal Literacy. Critical Notice. (1994) (0)
Introduction (1974) (0)
Awakening: Reading and Consciousness (2017) (0)
Contents, Vol. 33, 1990 (1990) (0)
Sentences and Logic (2017) (0)
THE CHANGE IN THE MIND OF THE CHILD (1970) (0)
Comment on "Computers as Tools of the Intellect" (1986) (0)
On Literacy and Cognition: A Critical Summation (1989) (0)
Jerome Bruner (1915-2016). Erudito y pionero del desarrollo cognitivo y la educación: in memoriam (2017) (0)
CONCLUSIONS: SOME ASPECTS OF A THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (1970) (0)
Commentary on “How do use and comprehension of mental-state language relate to theory of mind in middle childhood?” by I. Grazzani and V. Ornaghi (2012) (0)
INSTRUCTION REVISITED: PERCEPTUAL, MOTOR AND LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (1970) (0)
Reading, Consciousness and Rationality (2017) (0)
Back Matter (1974) (0)
ENCODING ABILITY IN TEACHER-STUDENT COMMUN I CAT I ON GAMES (2012) (0)
THE EFFECTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOY ON INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT (1970) (0)
Book Review:Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing and Knowing in Academic Philosophy Cheryl Geisler (1995) (0)
Social and Logical aspects of meaning in children 's oral and written language (1980) (0)
Book Review: "Human Minds: An Exploration.". (1994) (0)
LOOKING, SEEING AND KNOWING—EYE MOVEMENT STUDIES (1970) (0)
Making sense. (2022) (0)
Reprising John Dewey: A Review of Andreas Demetriou, George Spanoudis & Antigoni Mouyi's “Educating the Developing Mind: Towards an Overarching Paradigm” (2012) (0)
Taxing memory: Writing, memory, and conceptual change (1996) (0)
LITERATE THOUGHT 1 (1989) (0)
1. On the relations between speech and writing (1997) (0)
Conceptual differentiation: Quantity and pouring-time. (1969) (0)
Thinking about logic. (1987) (0)
The impasse amongst learning theory, cognitive theory and educational theory. (1967) (0)

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