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Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Ferrara, Francesca; Ferrari, Giulia; Adamuz-Povedano, Natividad – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
This paper focuses on the emergence of abstraction through the use of a new kind of motion detector--WiiGraph--with 11-year-old children. In the selected episodes, the children used this motion detector to create three simultaneous graphs of position vs. time: two graphs for the motion of each hand and a third one corresponding to their…
Descriptors: Motion, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Software
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Wenke, Dorit; Fleming, Stephen M.; Haggard, Patrick – Cognition, 2010
The experience of controlling one's own actions, and through them events in the outside world, is a pervasive feature of human mental life. Two experiments investigated the relation between this sense of control and the internal processes involved in action selection and cognitive control. Action selection was manipulated by subliminally priming…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Experiential Learning
Srivastava, Rajendra K.; Peel, Thomas S. – 1968
A research study and the intent and purpose of its experiments are outlined to support the premise that "a change in the color of an environment will bring a change in the pattern of human movement within that environment". Experiment cited is concerned with the color variables of light beige and dark brown in a controlled environment with museum…
Descriptors: Color, Cybernetics, Design Requirements, Environmental Influences