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The conference papers in this collection emphasize the theoretical significance of their authors' work in the areas of mathematical and cognitive psychology. Major topics considered include facilitation of problem solving; psychological differences among problem isomorphs; the process of understanding in problem solving; processing information for decisions; decision making with multiple probabilistic cues; behavioral richness of cascaded inference models; the speech of mothers to young children; young children's reasoning about small numbers; retrieval in the development of learning; the processes that take place in one second of reading; and the word identification process in reading. (AA)