NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Rachel Carter Poirier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Reading is a fascinating cognitive process through which individuals perceive arbitrary symbols on a page and turn them into vivid mental representations of text. Most available evidence supports an embodied explanation for how readers are capable of such representations--they recruit supralinguistic brain regions in order to mentally simulate the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies
Candace LeClaire Florence – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For decades, higher education institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and Penn State University have recognized the value of implementing visual literacy teaching strategies in seemingly the most unlikely of places: the classrooms of future medical professionals. These schools, and many others, require their medical students to partake in robust…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Visual Literacy, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aaron Chuey; Amanda McCarthy; Kristi Lockhart; Emmanuel Trouche; Mark Sheskin; Frank Keil – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Previous research shows that children effectively extract and utilize causal information, yet we find that adults doubt children's ability to understand complex mechanisms. Since adults themselves struggle to explain how everyday objects work, why expect more from children? Although remembering details may prove difficult, we argue that exposure…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Memory, Children, Expertise