What does it me an to be literate? What does it suggest to be a cognizing person? what's the nature of cognizing? those usually are not new questions. they've been handled as "philosophical puzzles" to be reflected systema­ tically within the wish of a few eventual answer. they've got additionally been considered as units of "language video games" with their very own principles to permit the person to appreciate the realm. those age-old and demanding matters achieve renewed which means with our advances in know-how and neurosciences. Psychologists and educators would have to pay attention to the specific wisdom had to organize their scholars to be literate contributors. those have been a number of the questions small variety of psychologists, educators, and laptop scientists tried to reply to after they amassed for the Symposium Literacy and Cognition, which used to be held on the collage of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada from twenty ninth to thirty first October, 1987. The party additionally marked the 60th anniversary of the varsity of schooling of the collage, which had as its starting the traditional institution for the Province of Saskatchewan. we're thankful to the presenters for his or her displays and their written papers, and likewise to our different colleagues from the us and Sweden for his or her contributions to the multi­ faceted subject matter of literacy and cognition. there are lots of folks whom we wish to thank. those contain: Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, Chancellor of the college and Lieutenant­ Governor of Saskatchewan, for her beginning feedback on the Symposium; Dr.