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Simms, Nina K.; Richland, Lindsey E. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Relational reasoning is a hallmark of human higher cognition and creativity, yet it is notoriously difficult to encourage in abstract tasks, even in adults. Generally, young children initially focus more on objects, but with age become more focused on relations. While prerequisite knowledge and cognitive resource maturation partially explains this…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Schemata (Cognition), Age Differences, Correlation
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Cook, Susan Wagner; Friedman, Howard S.; Duggan, Katherine A.; Cui, Jian; Popescu, Voicu – Cognitive Science, 2017
A beneficial effect of gesture on learning has been demonstrated in multiple domains, including mathematics, science, and foreign language vocabulary. However, because gesture is known to co-vary with other non-verbal behaviors, including eye gaze and prosody along with face, lip, and body movements, it is possible the beneficial effect of gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Animation, Eye Movements