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    "pk": 33096,
    "title": "Gestures Reveal Mental Models of Discrete and Continuous Change",
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    "abstract": "In studies of analogical transfer, subjects sometimes fail to \nrecognize that problems are structurally isomorphic \nbecause of differences in the problems' content. One \npotential explanation for this finding is that differences in \ncontent lead subjects to infer that the problems have \ndifferent structures. This interpretation would be supported \nby evidence that subjects construct differing mental models \nfor structurally isomorphic problems. In this study, we \nshow that subjects' gestures reveal their mental models of \nproblems that involve discrete and continuous change. \nFour subjects talked out loud as they solved a set of four \nproblems that involved constant change. All subjects \nproduced gestures as they spoke, and their gestures revealed \nboth continuous and discrete mental models of the manner \nof constant change. O n problems constructed to evoke \nmental models of continuous change, subjects tended to \nproduce gestures that incorporated smooth, continuous \nmotions. O n problems constructed to evoke mental models \nof discrete, incremental change, subjects tended to produce \ngestures that incorporated repeated, sequential, discrete \nmotions. Subjects' gestures sometimes provided more \nexplicit cues to their mental models than did their speech. \nThe results indicate that subjects sometimes constructed \ndiffering mental models for structurally analogous \nproblems.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "17",
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        {
            "first_name": "Martha",
            "middle_name": "Wagner",
            "last_name": "Allbali",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Miriam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bassok",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Karen",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Olseth",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sharon",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Syc",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northeastern Illinois State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Susan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goldin-Meadow",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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