Conference proceeding
How Gesture Protects Against Failures in Spatial Problem-Solving
ISLS Annual Meeting 2024: Learning as a Cornerstone of Healing, Resilience, and Community - 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2024 - Proceedings, pp.1343-1346
2024
DOI: 10.22318/icls2024.194755
Abstract
Student-generated gestures improve their spatial problem solving. Embodiment perspectives theorize that the mechanisms that underpin gesture’s role in spatial reasoning lie in the motor system. Some embodiment theorists, however, jettison working memory models while many information processing theorists assimilate embodiment into their working memory models. We therefore leveraged innovations in neuroimaging technologies to begin addressing this case of underdetermination of theory by data. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) we determined that students who learned to solve spatial problems successfully recruit brain regions associated with cognitive effort more so than students who learned to solve problems with non-gesture-based strategies. We discuss the theoretical implications for future educational research on gesture-based learning strategies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Gesture Protects Against Failures in Spatial Problem-Solving
- Creators
- Sam Clingan-Siverly - University of Iowa, Psychological and Brain SciencesEce Demir-Lira - University of Iowa, United StatesMike Stieff - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMatthew Lira - University of Iowa, United States
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- ISLS Annual Meeting 2024: Learning as a Cornerstone of Healing, Resilience, and Community - 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2024 - Proceedings, pp.1343-1346
- DOI
- 10.22318/icls2024.194755
- ISSN
- 1573-4552
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984824175702771
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