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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"cognition and learning"”.
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Understanding the Appropriateness of Standards on Kindergarten Achievement in California: A Developmental Perspective
… a greater emphasis on increasing academic standards in early childhood education, kindergarten students will be affected. In particular, there has been a statewide push toward increasing literacy by enforcing more rigorous language arts expectations for kindergarten entrance and the …
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Gestures and mental models: A triple coding hypothesis
Gestures and speech have been intertwined since the beginning of human communication. Recently the role of gestures in cognition and learning has become a topic of interest in both cognitive and educational psychology. Some researchers have speculated that gestures inherently communicate …
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Teacher professional growth in an authentic learning environment
… - technological, pedagogical, administrative, and social. These changes have led to considerable increments in the budgets devoted to professional development for teachers ~ with the express purpose of helping them accommodate their practices to the new realities oftheir classrooms. However, …
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Do Gestural Interfaces Promote Thinking? Embodied Interaction: Congruent Gestures and Direct-Touch Promote Performance in Math
Can action support cognition? Can direct touch support performance? Embodied interaction involving digital devices is based on the theory of grounded cognition. Embodied interaction with gestural interfaces involves more of our senses than traditional (mouse-based) interfaces, and in particular …
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Developmental myelination and myelin plasticity during spatial working memory task acquisition
… as it enables fast signal propagation and synchronisation of neuronal impulses. Myelin sheaths are created by oligodendrocytes, which stem from oligodendrocyte precursor cells. During development neurons become myelinated, and this process can be modulated by environmental factors, …
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Interactive videodisc technology in public school settings: an analytic review and delphi study
This study examined the nature and potential of interactive videodisc technology in public schools through an analytic review of the current literature and a modified Delphi study. The analytic review synthesized some of the writings related to classroom applications, technology policy in …
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Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension.
Stories, themes, concepts and references are organized structurally and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schanks Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing memory structures is essential to cognition and …
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Simply (neuro-)stimulating: The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on phonological and lexical tone learning indexed by behavior and pupillometry
Mandarin lexical tone learning has repeatedly been identified as a difficult linguistic feature for non-native speakers of tonal languages like English, even for native English learners of Mandarin at high proficiencies (e.g., Pelzl et al., 2019b). Sound perception training has been shown to help …
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Metaphorical Interpretation: Measuring and Facilitating Growth.
… the problem that although metaphorical literacy and thought are expected and necessary for success in junior and senior high school and beyond, metaphorical concepts and thought are not required to be explicitly taught to these students. The students were from 20 different classes from 4 levels: …