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# Memory: Short-term memory measurement based on the classic Memory Game
Theoretical and Experimental Questions
# Listen: Ability to relate pictures of objects with the sounds they produce in their natural environment.
 
# Hungry Navigation: Navigation ability measurement.
The aim of the project is to support the understanding of complex dynamic processes in the Natural Sciences. Thereby we draw attention to conducive design of dynamic visualizations while considering and developing findings from cognitive and media psychology. Within this context we study the following topics:
# Syntax: Series of writing-skills tests analogous to those used for the classical evaluation of learning disabilities.
 
# Comprehend: Measurement of the ability to relate a pictorial object with its written name or the sound of its name.
mental resources
# Categorize: Categorization ability using an educational game in which the child is asked to "drag" an object in the world in which it fits.
processing capacity, working memory
# Sequence: Sequencing ability measured using the same approach used by psychologists using words picturing time-related events.
attention
modality- and codality-based processing channels
learner requirements
domain specific knowledge structures within long-term memory
expertise regarding cognitive and metacognitive processing strategies
spatial ability, visual literacy


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Research Plan

The basic idea of the research project is that a successful knowledge acquisition with dynamic visualizations is a resource intensive process which requires simultaneous and optimized availability of different learning resources. This particularly comprises different processing capabilities of the cognitive system, functionalities of the applied computer technology and didactically substantiated contents and representations. Accordingly, the instructional potential of dynamic visualizations can only effectively evolve if these different learning resources are available in a coordinated way for a concrete knowledge acquisition scenario. This hypothesis will be investigated in formal learning settings (e.g. school, university) as well as in informal learning settings (e.g. aquarium, diving excursion) for a natural sciences domain, the locomotion of fish.

Formal Project Description
Contract Title Resource-Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics in the Natural Sciences
Lead Partner Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute
Grant Pact for Research and Innovation of the Competition Fund 2006 of the Leibniz-Association
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Website www.mentalmaps.org


Specific objective(s)

Theoretical and Experimental Questions

The aim of the project is to support the understanding of complex dynamic processes in the Natural Sciences. Thereby we draw attention to conducive design of dynamic visualizations while considering and developing findings from cognitive and media psychology. Within this context we study the following topics:

mental resources processing capacity, working memory attention modality- and codality-based processing channels learner requirements domain specific knowledge structures within long-term memory expertise regarding cognitive and metacognitive processing strategies

spatial ability, visual literacy


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