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Touchscreen Facilitates Young Children’s Transfer of Learning to Tell Time

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Young children are devoting increasing time to playing on handheld touchscreen devices (e.g., iPads). Though thousands of touchscreen apps are claimed to be educational, there is a lack of sufficient evidence examining the impact of touchscreens on ...
Fuxing Wang   +5 more
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Touchscreens for Whom? Working Memory and Age Moderate the Impact of Contingency on Toddlers' Transfer From Video

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Toddlers exhibit poor transfer between video and real-world contexts. Contingently responsive video such as that found in touchscreen apps appears to assist transfer for some toddlers but not others.
Koeun Choi   +2 more
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Just Google It: Young Children’s Preferences for Touchscreens Versus Books in Hypothetical Learning Tasks

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Children today regularly interact with touchscreen devices (Rideout, 2013) and thousands of educational mobile applications are marketed to them (Shuler, 2012).
Sierra Eisen, Angeline S Lillard
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Visual Discrimination, Serial Reversal, and Extinction Learning in the mdx Mouse

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy and the most common neuromuscular disorder. In addition to neuromuscular consequences, some individuals with DMD experience global intellectual dysfunction and executive ...
Price E. Dickson, Guy Mittleman
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A Touchscreen Motivation Assessment Evaluated in Huntington's Disease Patients and R6/1 Model Mice

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2019
Apathy is pervasive across many neuropsychiatric disorders but is poorly characterized mechanistically, so targeted therapeutic interventions remain elusive.
Christopher J. Heath   +12 more
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Apex and ApeTouch: Development of a Portable Touchscreen System and Software for Primates at Zoos

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
We report on the development and testing of a portable touchscreen apparatus and accompanying software program for primate enrichment, cognitive research, and husbandry applications.
Christopher Flynn Martin   +2 more
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Touchscreen Typing As Optimal Supervisory Control [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
Traditionally, touchscreen typing has been studied in terms of motor performance. However, recent research has exposed a decisive role of visual attention being shared between the keyboard and the text area. Strategies for this are known to adapt to the task, design, and user.
Jokinen, Jussi P.P.   +5 more
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Concurrent and longitudinal associations between touchscreen use and executive functions at preschool-age

open access: yesFrontiers in Developmental Psychology
IntroductionThe prevalence of touchscreen devices has recently risen amongst young children. Some evidence suggests that increased touchscreen use may be negatively related to preschool-age children's executive functions (EFs).
Alicia Mortimer   +5 more
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Electroadhesion between a flat touchscreen and the human finger with randomly self-affine fractal surface

open access: yesFriction, 2020
In this study, the effects of finger roughness on the electrostatic potential, electrostatic field, and average effective squeezing pressure between a human finger and a touchscreen are calculated by the perturbation method.
M. Feshanjerdi
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Review of Capacitive Touchscreen Technologies: Overview, Research Trends, and Machine Learning Approaches

open access: yesSensors, 2021
Touchscreens have been studied and developed for a long time to provide user-friendly and intuitive interfaces on displays. This paper describes the touchscreen technologies in four categories of resistive, capacitive, acoustic wave, and optical methods.
Hyoungsik Nam   +4 more
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