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Campione, Giovanna Cristina; Piazza, Caterina; Villa, Laura; Molteni, Massimo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
The study was aimed at better clarifying whether action execution impairment in autism depends mainly on disruptions either in feedforward mechanisms or in feedback-based control processes supporting motor execution. To this purpose, we analyzed prehension movement kinematics in 4- and 5-year-old children with autism and in peers with typical…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Kinetics
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Chua, Kao-Wei; Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael E. J.; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Seeing pictures of objects activates the motor cortex and can have an influence on subsequent grasping actions. However, the exact nature of the motor representations evoked by these pictures is unclear. For example, action plans engaged by pictures could be most affected by direct visual input and computed online based on object shape.…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Comprehension, Attention
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Abdollahipour, Reza; Psotta, Rudolf; Land, William M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Purpose: Studies have suggested that the use of visual information may underlie the benefit associated with an external focus of attention. Recent studies exploring this connection have primarily relied on motor tasks that involve manipulation of an object (object projection). The present study examined whether vision influences the effect of…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychomotor Skills, Object Manipulation, Human Body
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Lahav, Orly; Babai, Reuven – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2018
Structured abstract: Introduction: Difficulties in science and mathematics may stem from intuitive interference of irrelevant salient variables in a task. It has been suggested that such intuitive interference is based on immediate perceptual differences that are often visual. Studies performed with sighted participants have indicated that in the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Geometry, Intuition, Interference (Learning)
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Stieff, Mike; Lira, Matthew E.; Scopelitis, Stephanie A. – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
The present article describes two studies that examine the impact of teaching students to use gesture to support spatial thinking in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) discipline of chemistry. In Study 1 we compared the effectiveness of instruction that involved either watching gesture, reproducing gesture, or reading…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, STEM Education, Research Universities
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Fiorella, Logan; van Gog, Tamara; Hoogerheide, Vincent; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
The present study tests whether presenting video modeling examples from the learner's (first-person) perspective promotes learning of an assembly task, compared to presenting video examples from a third-person perspective. Across 2 experiments conducted in different labs, university students viewed a video showing how to assemble an 8-component…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Video Technology, Instructional Materials, Modeling (Psychology)