How Much Cueing Is Needed in Instructional Animations? The Role of Prior Knowledge
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DOI: 10.1007/s10956-020-09845-5
Abstract: This study explored the effects of prior knowledge and cueing on the learning (retention, transfer, and matching) and mental effort of learners who studied an instructional animation with accompanying narration about photosynthesis. A 4 × 2 between-subjects… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge learners; prior knowledge; mental effort; cueing needed ... See more keywords
Does learner cognition count on modality? Working memory and L2 morphosyntactic achievement across oral and written tasks
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716420000442
Abstract: Abstract This study investigates how working memory (WM) abilities are implicated in second language (L2) learners’ (a) morphosyntactic achievement and (b) perceptions of required mental effort and task difficulty under oral versus written task modality… read more here.
Keywords: mental effort; modality; working memory; morphosyntactic achievement ... See more keywords
The transdiagnostic structure of mental effort avoidance
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37802-1
Abstract: The law of least mental effort states that, everything else being equal, the brain tries to minimize mental effort expenditure during task performance by avoiding decisions that require greater cognitive demands. Prior studies have shown… read more here.
Keywords: mental effort; effort avoidance; effort expenditure; transdiagnostic structure ... See more keywords
Mental effort and recovery from task-induced fatigue in people with traumatic brain injury
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DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2030416
Abstract: Abstract Purpose This exploratory case-controlled study examined whether the same amount of effort leads to similar feelings of fatigue and whether feelings of fatigue decline at the same rate in people with traumatic brain injury… read more here.
Keywords: traumatic brain; task; fatigue; mental effort ... See more keywords
The relationship between pupillary baseline manipulated by mental effort or luminance and subsequent pupillary responses
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DOI: 10.1167/jov.22.7.7
Abstract: Measuring pupillary response is a prevalent technique to evaluate mental states. It is indispensable to conduct a correction procedure for the pupillary baseline to get a meaningful conclusion from the pupillary response. However, the relationship… read more here.
Keywords: pupillary response; mental effort; baseline; pupillary baseline ... See more keywords
Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist’s Eyes and Brain
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.576888
Abstract: We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of mental effort and fMRI as an exploratory method of effort with… read more here.
Keywords: mental effort; playing listening; listening imagining; music ... See more keywords
Musical and Bodily Predictors of Mental Effort in String Quartet Music: An Ecological Pupillometry Study of Performers and Listeners
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653021
Abstract: Music performance can be cognitively and physically demanding. These demands vary across the course of a performance as the content of the music changes. More demanding passages require performers to focus their attention more intensity,… read more here.
Keywords: mental effort; string quartet; pupillometry; performers listeners ... See more keywords