Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

The literature on spatial associations during number processing is dominated by the SNARC
(spatial–numerical association of response codes) effect. We describe spatial biases found …

A rising epistemological paradigm in the cognitive sciences—embodied cognition—has
been stimulating innovative approaches, among educational researchers, to the design and …

4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and
thriving field of interdisciplinary research. It assumes that cognition is shaped and structured …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate
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Gestures are often taken as evidence that the body is involved in thinking and speaking
about the ideas expressed in those gestures. In this article, we present evidence drawn from …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Although neglected in traditional education, spatial thinking plays a critical role in
achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. We …