Zohar, R.; Karp, O.; Ben-Joseph, T.; Ahissar, E. Predictive Eye Movements Characterize Active, Not Passive, Participation in the Collective Embodied Learning of a Scientific Concept. Appl. Sci.2023, 13, 8627.
Zohar, R.; Karp, O.; Ben-Joseph, T.; Ahissar, E. Predictive Eye Movements Characterize Active, Not Passive, Participation in the Collective Embodied Learning of a Scientific Concept. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 8627.
Zohar, R.; Karp, O.; Ben-Joseph, T.; Ahissar, E. Predictive Eye Movements Characterize Active, Not Passive, Participation in the Collective Embodied Learning of a Scientific Concept. Appl. Sci.2023, 13, 8627.
Zohar, R.; Karp, O.; Ben-Joseph, T.; Ahissar, E. Predictive Eye Movements Characterize Active, Not Passive, Participation in the Collective Embodied Learning of a Scientific Concept. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 8627.
Abstract
Abstract: Embodied pedagogy maintains that teaching and learning abstract concepts can benefit significantly from integrating bodily movements in the process. Here we explored the involvement of eye movements in the process of collective embodied learning of a concept in physics - angular velocity. Embodied learning was accomplished by the subjects forming a line that rotated around a central object, in this case, a bottle. We tracked the gaze resulting from eye and head movements in 12 subjects, who both actively participated in the collective embodied exercise and passively watched it. The tracking data of 7 of these 12 subjects passed our tracking reliability criteria in all trials and are reported here. During active learning, the learners tended to look ahead of the rotating line (by 35.18±14.82 degrees). In contrast, while passively watching others performing the task, the learners tended to look directly at the line. Interestingly, while the learners were performing the collective exercise they were unaware of looking ahead of the rotating line. We discuss possible differences between active and passive embodied learning that might be indicated by the observed differences in gaze control.
Biology and Life Sciences, Neuroscience and Neurology
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