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Direct linkTristan H. S. de Jonge; Anna Berti; Sanne van Schijndel; Margot van Wermeskerken; Ellen Kok – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
The coherence principle suggests removing unnecessary--or seductive--content from educational texts to reduce cognitive load. However, the binary proposition that all seductive details should be excluded neglects images' potential to prime semantically related concepts, which makes texts easier to process. It was hypothesized that this priming…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Schemata (Cognition)
Linda Espey; Marta Ghio; Christian Bellebaum; Laura Bechtold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
