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Cartooning in Biological Learning
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Teaching bioscience subjects requires helping students understand complicated and abstract concepts. An effective method of helping students understand these abstract topics is the use of concept cartoons. Concept cartoons are cartoon‐style drawings that illustrate everyday situations. In constructivism, learners create their own knowledge and
Soukaina Bahsoun +2 more
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Conceptual similarity and visual metaphor: effects on viewing times, appreciation, and recall
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 Different levels of conceptual similarity in equivalent visual structures may determine the way meaning is attributed to images. The degree to which two depicted objects are of the same kind limits interpretive possibilities.
Luuk Lagerwerf +2 more
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Conventionality in visual metaphor [PDF]
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Didier Hodiamont +2 more
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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It is important that we speak [PDF]
, 2008 It is not easy to come to voice. It is not easy to speak your piece. But it is our mission to encourage each member of Roger Williams University community to reach enlightenment, to use the visual metaphor, or to come to voice, to use the ...
Campbell, Jennifer
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Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techo-schientific mandalas [PDF]
, 2018 Metaphors allow us to come to terms with abstract and complex information, by comparing it to something which is structured, familiar and concrete. Although modern science is “iconoclastic”, as Gaston Bachelard phrases it, scientists are at the same time
Zwart, Hub
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
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The Understanding of Visual Metaphors by the Congenitally Blind
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Results from a narrow set of empirical studies suggest that blind individuals’ comprehension of metaphorical expressions does not differ from that of sighted participants.
Ricardo A. Minervino +3 more
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Evaluating musical software using conceptual metaphors [PDF]
, 2009 An open challenge for interaction designers is to find ways of designing software to enhance the ability of novices to perform tasks that normally require specialized domain expertise.
Holland, Simon +2 more
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Developing interactive animations as a learning tool for work integrated learning
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The role of field education for social work students is fundamental to linking students' theory to practice. Field education refers to the practical component of educational programmes where students gain hands‐on experience in their field of study.
Amanda Gigliotti +4 more
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