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Sali, Anthony W.; Anderson, Brian A.; Yantis, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Individuals regularly experience fluctuations in the ability to perform cognitive operations. Although previous research has focused on predicting cognitive flexibility from persistent individual traits, as well as from spontaneous fluctuations in neural activity, the role of learning in shaping preparatory attentional control remains poorly…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Learning Processes, Probability, Visual Learning
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Hoffler, Tim N.; Prechtl, Helmut; Nerdel, Claudia – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
In a 2 x 2 design, we examined the role of visual cognitive style in two multimedia-based learning environments (text plus static pictures/animations). A statistically significant interaction was obtained for deeper comprehension: Highly developed visualizers (HDV) who learned with static pictures performed better than HDV who learned with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Animation, Visual Learning
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Engel, G. R.; And Others – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1973
Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Memory
Sachs, David A.; And Others – 1971
Learning sets programs were administered to preschool deaf children from a variety of representative educational programs throughout the southwest to improve their visual perception skills. The concept of learning sets was described as progression from trial-and-error learning to immediate problem solving by insight. The project consisted of six…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Learning Processes, Preschool Children