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Non-verbal Enrichment in Vocabulary Learning With a Virtual Pedagogical Agent
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Non-verbal enrichment in the form of pictures or gesture can support word learning in first and foreign languages. The present study seeks to compare the effects of viewing pictures vs.
Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten +1 more
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Engineering Pareidolia: Mental Imagery, Perceptual Scaffolding, and Visual Creativity
Brain SciencesPareidolia is often framed as a viewer-side illusion: a tendency to perceive meaningful forms—especially faces—in ambiguous inputs. This Concept Paper argues that pareidolia can also be deliberately engineered and therefore provides a tractable entry ...
Alexis Demas
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Rethinking ADHD as a neurointestinal syndrome: a gut–brain–parasite hypothesis
Frontiers in NeuroscienceNeurodevelopmental conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are usually framed as brain-based disorders driven by genetics and neurotransmitter imbalance.
Alexis Demas, Alexis Demas
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Nonverbal communication in EFL teaching [PDF]
, 2016 XXI Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2016)In recent years a number of researchers have stressed the importance of nonverbal communication – especially Kinesics – in the teaching and learning of ...
Bellés-Calvera, Lucía
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, 2015 A consideration of how irreverent approaches to fashion illustration can open a space for more critical approaches to the form - challenging idealised representations of the body, bringing a sense of 'humanness' to fashion or by reflecting on what our ...
Taylor, Zoe
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács +8 more
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Exploring Young Students' Functional Thinking [PDF]
, 2013 The Early Years Generalising Project (EYGP) involves Australian Years 1-4 (age 5-9) students and investigates how they grasp and express generalisations.
Cooper, Thomas J. +2 more
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What Makes a Gesture a Gesture? Neural Signatures Involved in Gesture Recognition [PDF]
2017 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2017), 2017 Previous work in the area of gesture production, has made the assumption that machines can replicate "human-like" gestures by connecting a bounded set of salient points in the motion trajectory. Those inflection points were hypothesized to also display cognitive saliency. The purpose of this paper is to validate that claim using electroencephalography (
Cabrera, Maria +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski +9 more
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Conceptualizing English academic writing via verbal and manual metaphors [PDF]
Ibérica, 2009 As a powerful cognitive tool, metaphor is used in the educational setting to simplify abstract knowledge for learners. Gesture, the material carrier of thought, can represent abstract concepts in a visual mode.
Jun Zhao
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