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    "pk": 26816,
    "title": "Watching Non-Corresponding Gestures Helps Learners with High VisuospatialAbility to Learn about Movements with Dynamic Visualizations: An fNIRS Study",
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    "abstract": "This study investigates whether making and observing(human) gestures facilitates learning about non-humanbiological movements and whether correspondence betweengesture and to-be-learned movement is superior to non-correspondence. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy wasused to address whether gestures activate the human mirror-neuron system (hMNS) and whether this activation mediatesthe facilitation of learning. During learning, participantsviewed the animations of the to-be-learned movements twice.Depending on the condition, the second viewing wassupplemented with either a self-gesturing instruction (Y/N)and/or a gesture video (corresponding/non-corresponding/no).Results showed that high-visuospatial-ability learners showedbetter learning outcomes with non-corresponding gestures,whereas those gestures were detrimental for low-visuospatial-ability learners. Furthermore, the activation of the inferior-parietal cortex (part of the hMNS) tended to predict betterlearning outcomes. Unexpectedly, making gestures did notinfluence learning, but cortical activation differed for learnerswho self-gestured depending on which gesture they observed.Results and implications are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Learning about movements; dynamicvisualizations; human mirror-neuron system; gestures;functional near-infrared spectroscopy."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3127s9x8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Birgit",
            "middle_name": " ",
            "last_name": "Brucker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Björn",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "de Koning",
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            "institution": "Erasmus University Rotterdam",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ann-Christine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ehlis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University Hospital Tuebingen,",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rosenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University Hospital Tuebingen,",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gerjets",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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