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Real-Time Mutual Gaze Perception Enhances Collaborative Learning and Collaboration Quality
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Schneider, Bertrand; Pea, Roy – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2017
In this chapter we present the results of an eye-tracking study on collaborative problemsolving dyads. Dyads remotely collaborated to learn from contrasting cases involving basic concepts about how the human brain processes visual information. In one condition, dyads saw the eye gazes of their partner on the screen; in a control group, they did…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Eye Movements, Problem Solving, Brain
Efficacy of Visual-Acoustic Biofeedback Intervention for Residual Rhotic Errors: A Single-Subject Randomization Study
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Byun, Tara McAllister – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study documented the efficacy of visual-acoustic biofeedback intervention for residual rhotic errors, relative to a comparison condition involving traditional articulatory treatment. All participants received both treatments in a single-subject experimental design featuring alternating treatments with blocked randomization of…
Descriptors: Biofeedback, Intervention, Randomized Controlled Trials, Comparative Analysis
Enhanced Access to Early Visual Processing of Perceptual Simultaneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Falter, Christine M.; Braeutigam, Sven; Nathan, Roger; Carrington, Sarah; Bailey, Anthony J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
We compared judgements of the simultaneity or asynchrony of visual stimuli in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically-developing controls using Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Two vertical bars were presented simultaneously or non-simultaneously with two different stimulus onset delays. Participants with ASD distinguished…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Visual Stimuli, Experimental Groups
Real-Time Mutual Gaze Perception Enhances Collaborative Learning and Collaboration Quality
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Schneider, Bertrand; Pea, Roy – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013
In this paper we present the results of an eye-tracking study on collaborative problem-solving dyads. Dyads remotely collaborated to learn from contrasting cases involving basic concepts about how the human brain processes visual information. In one condition, dyads saw the eye gazes of their partner on the screen; in a control group, they did not…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Eye Movements, Problem Solving, Brain
Improving the Social Skills of Children with HFASD: An Intervention Study
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Waugh, Cynthia; Peskin, Joan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
The present study examines the efficacy of a social skills and Theory of Mind (S.S.ToM) intervention for children with high-functioning ASD. Children were taught to identify and consider their peer's mental states, e.g., knowledge, emotions, desires, beliefs, intentions, likes and dislikes, while learning friendship-making skills and strategies,…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Theory of Mind, Intervention, Autism
Thinking about a Reader's Mind: Fostering Communicative Clarity in the Compositions of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Grossman, Michael; Peskin, Joan; San Juan, Valerie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
A critical component of effective communication is the ability to consider the knowledge state of one's audience, yet individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have difficulty representing the mental states of others. In the present study, youth with high-functioning ASD were trained to consider their reader's knowledge states in…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication
Improvement of Working Memory in Preschoolers and Its Impact on Early Literacy Skills: A Study in Deprived Communities of Rural and Urban Areas
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Rojas-Barahona, Cristian A.; Förster, Carla E.; Moreno-Ríos, Sergio; McClelland, Megan M. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The present study evaluated the impact of a working memory (WM) stimulation program on the development of WM and early literacy skills (ELS) in preschoolers from socioeconomically deprived rural and urban schools in Chile. The sample consisted of 268 children, 144 in the intervention group and 124 in the comparison group. The…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Rural Areas