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Schwind, Christina; Buder, Jurgen; Cress, Ulrike; Hesse, Friedrich W. – Computers & Education, 2012
The Web is a perfect backdrop for opinion formation as a multitude of different opinions is publicly available. However, the different opinions often remain unexploited: Learners prefer preference-consistent over preference-inconsistent information, a phenomenon called confirmation bias. Two experiments were designed to test whether technologies…
Descriptors: Opinions, Creative Thinking, Internet, Experiments
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Longo, Matthew R.; Haggard, Patrick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Primary somatosensory maps in the brain represent the body as a discontinuous, fragmented set of two-dimensional (2-D) skin regions. We nevertheless experience our body as a coherent three-dimensional (3-D) volumetric object. The links between these different aspects of body representation, however, remain poorly understood. Perceiving the body's…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Cognitive Mapping, Perception