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Ethan Roy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The human brain's ability to adapt and change in response to environmental inputs drives nearly all forms of learning throughout the lifespan. The unique plasticity of the human brain allows for the uptake of sociocultural inventions, such as reading and mathematics, through widespread changes across a range of cortical areas and white matter…
Descriptors: Brain, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Individual Development
Konstantin Kaganovsky – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The brain must strike a balance between reliable information processing and adaptation to an ever-changing environment. At a gross anatomical level, the brain's wiring diagram is believed to be relatively set after development. Therefore, a fundamental question arises: how does stereotyped wiring lead to flexible dynamics, computation, and…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Learning Processes, Brain, Behavior
Marc Brookes Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Memory is expressed in multiple functionally and anatomically distinct systems that interact over the course of learning and during the retrieval of information about the world. One method to determine the kind of memory representation (episodic and/or procedural) guiding behavior is to look at the expression of expectations (i.e., predictions) in…
Descriptors: Memory, Attention, Prior Learning, Biofeedback
Shawn Kaplan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This non-experimental, correlational, quantitative study sought to identify possible relationships between educators' beliefs in neuromyths - misconceptions or misunderstandings about how people learn - and the frequency in which instructional practices are used in the classroom. The prevalence and pervasiveness of neuromyth beliefs are well…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Misconceptions, Teaching Methods
Jake C. Crawley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative, correlational-predictive study was to understand if and to what extent the demographic variables Age, Gender, and Years of Experience individually or combined predict Belief in Neurological Myths among higher education faculty in the United States. The approach utilized is grounded in the ongoing study of belief…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Neurosciences, Measurement Techniques, Age Differences
Takuya Ito – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The human brain is a flexible information processing system. Across a range of simple and complex tasks, such as walking across the street to playing basketball, the brain transforms sensory information from the environment into corresponding motor actions. This sensory input to motor output transformation likely requires a sequence of complex…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Neurosciences, Perceptual Motor Learning
Christina Marie Blomquist – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The long-term objective of this project was to better understand how shorter auditory experience and spectral degradation of the cochlear implant (CI) signal impact spoken language processing in deaf children with CIs. The specific objective of this research was to utilize psycholinguistic methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying observed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Assistive Technology, Comparative Analysis, Hearing Impairments
Alex Warstadt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Data-driven learning uncontroversially plays a role in human language acquisition--how large a role is a matter of much debate. The success of artificial neural networks in NLP in recent years calls for a re-evaluation of our understanding of the possibilities for learning grammar from data alone. This dissertation argues the case for using…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Ethics
David Abugaber – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Learning new languages is a complex task involving both explicit and implicit processes (i.e., that do/do not involve awareness). Understanding how these processes interact is essential to a full account of second language (L2) learning, but accounts vary as to whether explicit processes help (e.g., DeKeyser, 2007), hinder (e.g., Ellis &…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Artificial Languages, Task Analysis
Amy Jean Konyn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Natural language is highly complex and can be challenging for some learners, yet the contribution of complexity to individual differences in language learning remains poorly understood. This poor understanding appears due to both a lack of consensus among researchers regarding what complexity is, and to on-line language research often employing…
Descriptors: Phonology, Natural Language Processing, Native Language, English
Harris, Phyllis C. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore how administrator and teacher perceptions affect their application of brain-based learning (BBL) professional development (PD) in schools, specifically an Atlanta suburb middle school. The research was framed around social cognitive theory (SCT), the premise that a person's…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Neurosciences, Case Studies, Administrator Attitudes
Courtney Morgan Pollack – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The ability for students to understand numbers and other mathematical symbols is a crucial part of success in mathematics. Accordingly, it is important for researchers to understand the nature of symbolic number processing -- the connections between a symbol or collection of symbols that convey numerical information (e.g., Arabic digits,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Symbols (Mathematics), Learning Processes, Meta Analysis
Sanchez, Laura V. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Adult literacy training is known to be difficult in terms of teaching and maintenance (Abadzi, 2003), perhaps because adults who recently learned to read in their first language have not acquired reading automaticity. This study examines fast word recognition process in neoliterate adults, to evaluate whether they show evidence of perceptual…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Literacy, Adult Literacy, Task Analysis
Boyd, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The concept of brain hemisphere dominance serves as the basis for many educational learning theories. The dominant brain hemisphere guides the learning process, but both hemispheres are necessary for true learning to take place. This treatise outlines and analyzes the dominance factor, a learning theory developed by Dr. Carla Hannaford, which…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Pitkanen, Ilona – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research presented in this dissertation examined changes in brain activity associated with learning, forgetting and using a second language. The first experiment investigated the changes that occur when novice adult second language learners acquire and forget second language words. Event-related brain potentials were measured while native…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Correlation, Vowels, Grammar