A productive approach to studying the role of representations in supporting students’ learning of science content is to examine their representational practices. The current study examines kindergarten and first-grade students’ representational practices in a similar context—the creation of storyboards—both before and after a curricular intervention in order to highlight those aspects of their ...

Given the description of a physical system in one of several forms (a set of constraints, Bayesian network etc.) and a set of observations made, the task of model-based diagnosis is to find a suitable assignment to the modes of behavior of individual components (this notion can also be extended to handle transitions and dynamic systems [Kurien and Nayak, 2000]. Many formalisms have been propose...

The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model and find that even before they use speech to communicate, they use gesture. Moreover, those gestures precede, and predict, the acquisition of structures in speech. We look next at deaf children whose hearing losses prev...

context the current study aimed to review research articles concerning cortical representational plasticity following the manipulations of inputs. evidence acquisition this review article compromised previous studies in pubmed, google scholar and scientific information databases according to the keywords since 1988. results ca1 neurons depolarization paired with ca3 presynaptic input result in ...

Peirce's Alpha Existential Graphs (AEG) is combined with Spencer Brown's Laws of Form to create an algebraic diagrammatic formalism called boundary logic. First, the intuitive properties of configurations of planar nonoverlapping closed curves are viewed as a pure boundary mathematics, without conventional interpretation. Void representational space provides a featureless substrate for boundary...

* This research was in part supported by Grants N00014-96-1-0472 and N00014-95-1-0241 from the Office of Naval Research, Cognitive and Neural Sciences & Technology Division, and by a Seed Grant from the Office of Research at The Ohio State University. Abstract This study examines the effects of representational forms on the acquisition and transfer of problem solving strategies. Three isomorphi...

BACKGROUND The article was designed to contribute to the empirical clarification of representational structures among adult psychiatric patients. According to psychoanalytic concepts, cognitive developmental psychology and attachment theory, various forms of adult psychopathology involve fundamental impairments in representational structures or cognitive-affective schemas. SUBJECTS AND METHOD...

In this paper, we develop a theory of image-driven interpretations for the translation studies domain. Interpretations make core and are explained in terms mental images. An interpretation gives meaning to source-language word finds target language capture meaning, which is creative act cross-cultural transfer. ‘drawing’ images human mind by powers mind’s representational content. Our proposes ...

The traditional understanding of analyticity in terms of concept containment is revisited, but with a concept explicitly understood as a certain kind of mental representation and containment being read correspondingly literally. The resulting conception of analyticity avoids much of the vagueness associated with attempts to explicate analyticity in terms of synonymy by moving the locus of discu...