{"pk":26816,"title":"Watching Non-Corresponding Gestures Helps Learners with High VisuospatialAbility to Learn about Movements with Dynamic Visualizations: An fNIRS Study","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Learning about movements; dynamicvisualizations; human mirror-neuron system; gestures;functional near-infrared spectroscopy."}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"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","name_suffix":"","institution":"Erasmus University Rotterdam","department":""},{"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","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26816/galley/16452/download/"}]}