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S. Bahar Sener; Ariel Starr – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Although we cannot see or touch time, across many cultures, we use spatial representations to think about this abstract concept. Spatial representations of time are thought to support temporal concepts that might otherwise be difficult to represent and reason about, such as the temporal component of episodic memory. One common form of spatially…
Descriptors: Memory, Cultural Pluralism, Spatial Ability, Time
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Liu, Chan; Liu, Hao; Tan, Zhanglu – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
In online education, the appropriate choice of means of knowledge visualization can reduce cognitive load and improve cognitive efficiency. However, no universal basis for selection can cause confusion in the pedagogical context. This study used the revised Bloom's taxonomy to combine the types of knowledge with cognitive goals. We used a course…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Visualization, Eye Movements, Electronic Learning
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Vilnite, Fiona Mary; Marnauza, Mara – Music Education Research, 2023
Mental training has been employed successfully by experienced musicians, but rarely explored with younger learners. Considering its benefits, however, including the use and development of predictive, feedforward processes, identified in neuroscience as being central to playing a musical instrument, this mixed qualitative-quantitative study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Training, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Thacker, Ian; Sinatra, Gale M. – Education Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this design based research study was to better understand and build from students' perceptual experiences of visual representations of the greenhouse effect. Twenty undergraduate students were interviewed as they engaged with an online visualization for the learning of the greenhouse effect. We found that, even though all students…
Descriptors: Visualization, Climate, Computer Simulation, Environmental Education
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Jagals, Divan; van der Walt, Marthie – Pythagoras, 2018
Awareness of one's own strengths and weaknesses during visualisation is often initiated by the imagination -- the faculty for intuitively visualising and modelling an object. Towards exploring the role of metacognitive awareness and imagination in facilitating visualisation in solving a mathematics task, four secondary schools in the North West…
Descriptors: Visualization, Metacognition, Imagination, Role
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Yang, Hui-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
The present study examines how various types of attention cueing and cognitive preference affect learners' comprehension of a cardiovascular system and cognitive load. EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: non-signal, static-blood-signal, static-blood-static-arrow-signal, and animation-signal. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention, Cues, Visualization
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Twissell, Adrian – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This literature review explores visualisation within the context of learning in design, engineering and technology education. The investigation first defines visualisation, providing examples of activities that utilise visualisation skills within an applied field. Then exploration of the mental mechanisms of visualisation used to engage with those…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Visualization, Technology Education, Scientific Concepts
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Chen, Yi-Chun; Yang, Fang-Ying – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
There were two purposes in the study. One was to explore the cognitive activities during spatial problem solving and the other to probe the relationship between spatial ability and science concept learning. Twenty university students participated in the study. The Purdue Visualization of Rotations Test (PVRT) was used to assess the spatial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving, Science Instruction
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Liaw, Hongming Leonard; Chiu, Mei-Hung; Chou, Chin-Cheng – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
It has been shown that facial expression states of learners are related to their learning. As part of a continuing research project, the current study delved further for a more detailed description of the relation between facial microexpression state (FMES) changes and learning in conceptual conflict-based instructions. Based on the data gathered…
Descriptors: Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Nonverbal Communication, Emotional Response
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Newcombe, Nora S.; Stieff, Mike – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Visualizations are an increasingly important part of scientific education and discovery. However, users often do not gain knowledge from them in a complete or efficient way. This article aims to direct research on visualizations in science education in productive directions by reviewing the evidence for widespread assumptions that learning styles,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Visualization, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Style
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Kordaki, Maria – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2003
Focuses on the role of tools, provided by a computer microworld (C.AR.ME), on the strategies developed by 14-year-old students regarding the concept of conservation of area of a non-convex polygon. Indicates that the nature of the tools used affected the nature of solution strategies that students constructed. (Author/KHR)
Descriptors: Area, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts
Rosenquist, Celia – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2000
A study examined whether exemplar-specific or prototype representations were primarily used by 28 children (ages 10-12) with mild mental retardation in a categorization task consisting of two groups of make-believe animals whose features were ill-defined. Results indicated the children were able to acquire and use both types of representations.…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
John-Steiner, Vera – 1985
In an attempt to find out more about how creative people engage in thinking, more than 50 men and women considered to be prominant in the humanities, the arts, and the sciences were interviewed. Letters, diaries and autobiographies of other creative individuals were examined in an effort to provide a broad base for studying the psychology of…
Descriptors: Art, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking
Dake, Dennis M. – 1997
Using the metaphoric story device of two tribes, one that builds their culture around words and the other which depends primarily on visual perception, this paper suggests a distinctive mental paradigm at work within the society of artists, who pursue visual literacy through graphic ideation. The author discusses his education in art and his…
Descriptors: Artists, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
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Potari, Despina; Spiliotopoulou, Vasiliki – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1992
Reports a study designed to identify 9 and 11 year olds' ways of drawing nets of solids and to provide opportunities for them to reflect on their models in whole class discussions. Results indicated that children's views of solids' nets progressed from more global and holistic to more quantitative and analytic. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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