Students solving bimanual proportion tasks spontaneously develop attentional anchors, such as an imaginary diagonal line, that guide coordinated movement¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · theoretical r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? In qualitative micro-genetic analyses of Trainer sessions, participants typically developed new perceptual Gestalts, e.g. Lars attended to an imaginary diagonal line connecting the cursors, and his diagonal solution was quite typical. → Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022 q2 i? Across participants, a variety of attentional anchors was found, and secondary attentional anchors emerged from primary ones. → Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022 (2)

Evidence¶

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022¶

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner. (2022). Toward Synergizing Educational Research and Movement Sciences: a Dialogue on Learning as Developing Perception for Action. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09668-3

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Qualitative micro-genetic case analysis of Lars, a 14-year-old Dutch student, working on a Trainer variant task, with eye-gaze overlays showing his foveal gaze near the center of the imagined diagonals. The article notes "Lars's diagonal solution was quite typical". No effect size printed.

"When Lars achieved fluent movement in green, he was asked to explain his method. Lars said he was attending to an imaginary diagonal line connecting the cursors"

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022 (2)¶

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner. (2022). Toward Synergizing Educational Research and Movement Sciences: a Dialogue on Learning as Developing Perception for Action. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09668-3

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

Qualitative analysis across the design-research program: the article reports evidence for a variety of attentional anchors across participants and, in Lars's case, the emergence of a positive-slope diagonal as a secondary attentional anchor from the primary negative-slope one. No effect size printed.

"Already, though, we have witnessed the emergence of secondary attentional anchors from primary attentional anchors, as demonstrated, above, in the case study of Lars."

Discussion¶

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