Collinear facilitation is a common phenomenon in the fovea, but it has been recently challenged at the human periphery. Since physiological studies show that facilitation is found at the periphery but only from outside the receptive field, our hypothesis was that facilitation at the periphery exists but from larger target-flanker separations than the fovea. Here, we applied a recent paradigm (P...

With the increasing use of digital control of mechanical systems, it’s necessary for mechanical engineering students to have a basic knowledge of microcontrollers and microprocessors and their associated interfaces with mechanical world. As a consequence, in many universities have been introduced courses in which it is studied microcontrollers and their interface with the real world. The didact...

Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses is highly demanding for EAP teachers as they are faced with diverse pedagogical and administrative challenges in such courses. This study addressed the level of burnout among EAP teachers and variations in relation to their demographic and organizational characteristics. To this aim, a demographic questionnaire along with the Persian version ...

The purpose of this study was to design a university course with an ICT for students to more positively engage in learning by receiving useful formative assessments. A large-size course entitled “information ethics and laws” was designed based on pedagogical principles of learning environments [1]. The comparisons of students’ performance, and questionnaire/interview data manifested several typ...

With the growth of online courses and programs in higher education, considerable concerns emerge about student feelings of isolation and disconnectedness in the online learning environment. A research study was conducted to develop and validate an instrument that can be used to measure perceptions of connectedness of students enrolled in online programs or certification programs in higher educa...

background:electronically -learning has created a new horizon in the world of education. the purpose of this is improving the quality of education and conserving (saving) time for teachers and students; this training can facilitate and strengthen the process of review. since mashhad university of medical sciences trains the applicants for family medicine as mph virtually, we decided to study th...

Reward-associated cues are thought to promote relapse after treatment of appetitive disorders such as drug-taking, binge eating, and gambling. This process has been modelled in the laboratory using a Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) design in which Pavlovian cues facilitate instrumental reward-directed action. Attempts to reduce facilitation by cue exposure (extinction) have produced mixed...