Selected Publications:

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Physics Education Research/Cognitive Science:

 

A.F. Heckler, (in press). Preprint: Some consequences of prompting novice students to construct force diagrams. International Journal of Science Education.

E.C. Sayre & A.F. Heckler, (2009). Peaks and decays of student knowledge in an introductory E&M course. Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 5, 013101.

A.F. Heckler, J.A. Kaminski, & V.M. Sloutsky (2008). Learning Associations That Run Counter to Biases in Learning: Overcoming Overshadowing and Learned Inattention.  Proceedings of the XXX Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,  511-516. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

J.A. Kaminski, V.M. Sloutsky, & A.F. Heckler, (2008). The Advantage of Learning Abstract Examples in Learning Math. Science, 320, 454-455.

T. M. Scaife, & A. F. Heckler (2007). The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Field Questions. Proceedings of 2007 Physics Education Research Conference. Melville, New York: AIP Conference Proceedings.

J. Kaminski, V. M. Sloutsky, & A. F. Heckler, (2007). The Effects of Learning Multiple Instantiations on Transfer. Proceedings of the XXIX Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1581-1585. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

A.F. Heckler, J. Kaminski, & V.M. Sloutsky (2006). Differential Cue Salience, Blocking and Learned Inattention. Proceedings of the XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1167-1172. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

J. Kaminski, V.M. Sloutsky, & A.F. Heckler, (2006). Do Children Need Concrete Instantiations to Learn an Abstract Concept? Proceedings of the XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1167-1172. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

J. Kaminski, V.M. Sloutsky, & A.F. Heckler, (2005). Relevant concreteness and its effects on learning and transfer. Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1167-1172. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

V. M. Sloutsky, J.A. Kaminsky, & A.F. Heckler, (2005). ``The Advantage of Simple Symbols for Learning and Transfer'', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12 (3), 508-513.

 

Cosmology/Particle Astrophysics:

 

R. Lopez, S. Dodelson, A.F. Heckler, & M.S. Turner,  ``Precision Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background'', Physical Review Letters, 82, 3952 (1999)

A.F. Heckler ``Calculation of the emergent spectrum and observation of primordial black holes'' Physical Review Letters, 78, 3430 (1997)

A.F. Heckler, ``On the formation of a Hawking-radiation photosphere around microscopic black holes'', Physical Review, D55, 480 (1997).

M. Gleiser, A.F. Heckler, & E.W. Kolb, ``Modelling Thermal Fluctuations: Phase Mixing and Percolation'', Physics Letters B, 405, 121 (1997)

A.F. Heckler & E.W. Kolb, ``Searching for stellar mass black holes in the solar neighborhood'', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 472, L85 (1996).

M. Gleiser & A.F. Heckler, ``Non-perturbative effects on nucleation'', Physical Review Letters, 76, 180 (1996)

A.F. Heckler, ``The effects of electro-weak phase transition dynamics on baryogenesis and primordial nucleosynthesis'', Physical Review, D51, 405 (1995).

A.F. Heckler, ``Astrophysical applications of quantum corrections to the equation of state of a plasma'', Physical Review, D49, 611 (1994).

A. Heckler & C.J. Hogan. `` Neutrino heat conduction and inhomogeneities in the early universe'', Physical Review D47, 4256 (1993).