Cognitive Processes in Information Organization

• basis of cognitive processes (sensation and perception, learning, thinking)
• interaction between individual and ICT (cognitive and affective processes; developing skills for ICT and construction of cognitive schemata for information organization)
• perception (perception of different sources of information, modality of perception
• learning theories (cognitive, social-cognitive, skills learning, experiential learning, learning of reading and developing literacy, cognitive schemata, metacognition)
• theories of problem solving (divergent and convergent problem solving, linear and vertical problem solving; problem solving styles; metacognitive strategies)
• individual differences in library-information context, perception styles, cognitive styles, reading and other literacy)

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