Egan, Ciara Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna Warren, Paul Jones, Manon W
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Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
For skilled readers, idiomatic language confers faster access to overall meaning compared with non-idiomatic language, with a processing advantage for figurative over literal interpretation. However, currently very little research exists to elucidate whether atypical readers-such as those with developmental dyslexia-show such a processing advantage...
Hollenstein, Nora Tröndle, Marius Plomecka, Martyna Kiegeland, Samuel Özyurt, Yilmazcan Jäger, Lena A. Langer, Nicolas
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
We present a new machine learning benchmark for reading task classification with the goal of advancing EEG and eye-tracking research at the intersection between computational language processing and cognitive neuroscience. The benchmark task consists of a cross-subject classification to distinguish between two reading paradigms: normal reading and ...
Xiao, Jun Jiang, Zhujun Wang, Lamei Yu, Tianzhen
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Frontiers in Psychology
Teachers’ engagement in online learning is a key factor in improving the effectiveness of online teacher training. This paper introduces a multimodal learning analytics approach that uses data on brain waves, eye movements and facial expressions to predict in-service teachers’ engagement and learning outcomes in online synchronous training. This st...
Lenski, Sina Großschedl, Jörg
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Frontiers in Psychology
A new field of research builds on the theoretical assumption that distinct design manipulations, such as human-like features with appealing colors (emotional design), foster multimedia learning by influencing the learners’ affective state (i.e., valence and arousal) and attention. Empirical studies, however, provide inconsistent findings of the aff...
Tighe, Elizabeth L Kaldes, Gal Talwar, Amani Crossley, Scott A Greenberg, Daphne Skalicky, Stephen
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Journal of learning disabilities
Comprehension monitoring is a meta-cognitive skill that is defined as the ability to self-evaluate one's comprehension of text. Although it is known that struggling adult readers are poor at monitoring their comprehension, additional research is needed to understand the mechanisms underlying comprehension monitoring and their role in reading compre...
Mo, Yongyi Zhou, Rong Chen, Xi
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Frontiers in Psychology
An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of incongruous contextual cues, both perceptual and conceptual, on pictorial metaphor processing. In a metaphoricity decision task, 38 participants independently viewed a total of 36 pictures equally divided into three different conditions: metaphoric pictures (MP), anomalous liter...
Choi, Koeun Schlesinger, Molly A. Franchak, John M. Richert, Rebekah A.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Prior findings are mixed regarding the extent to which children understand others’ effort in early childhood. Especially, little is known about how character effort impacts children’s selective attention and learning. This study examined preschoolers’ visual attention to and learning from two on-screen characters: One character exerting high effort...
Braun, Irina Langner, Axel Graulich, Nicole
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Frontiers in Education
Drawing is a fundamental skill in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to express one’s reasoning and externalize mental models in problem-solving. Although research has highlighted the effectiveness of drawing as a learning strategy and the importance of drawing accuracy for learning success, little is known about l...
Grasso, Camille Ziegler, Johannes C Coull, Jennifer Montant, Marie
In Western cultures where people read and write from left to right, time is represented along a spatial continuum that goes from left to right (past to future), known as the mental timeline (MTL). In language, this MTL was supported by space–time congruency effects: People are faster to make lexical decisions to words conveying past or future infor...
Kim, Yesol Kadlaskar, Girija Keehn, Rebecca McNally Keehn, Brandon
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Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
A growing body of research suggests that locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system may function differently in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Understanding the dynamics of both tonic (resting pupil diameter) and phasic (pupil dilation response [PDR] and event-related potential [ERP]) indices may provide meaningful insights abo...
