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Mierowsky, Ruth; Marcus, Nadine; Ayres, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study, generated from considerations of embodied cognition, observational learning, and cognitive load theory, investigated the effect of mimicking gestures on learning to play piano tasks. Fifty university students from an Australian University, with two different levels of piano-playing experience, were randomly assigned to one of the two…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Imitation, College Students, Nonverbal Communication