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Using Concept Maps to Develop a Didactic Explanation of a Dress with Ambigous Colours

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We report on an experience carried out to show the didactic use of concept maps as tools for the development of a progressive explanation of the colour perception of a dress with ambiguous colours. Concept maps are used to promote a conceptual change in our students trying to answer the question: Why some people perceive the dress as blue & black and others as white & gold? We must first answer another preliminary question: On what depends the colour we perceive in a given object? We have used observations of the original dress in our colour laboratory by more than 300 people. The concept maps developed are based on a test for the detection of preconceptions about colour that can be taken online. In addition, we use different concept maps in successive levels of elaboration about the different factors that determine the colour a certain object is perceived.

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This Research was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain, and the Regional Government of Extremadura, through grants FIS2013-40661-P and GR15102.

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  1. University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

    Francisco Luis Naranjo, Guadalupe Martínez, Ángel Luis Pérez, Pedro J. Pardo & María Isabel Suero

  2. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Manuel Melgosa

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Naranjo, F.L., Martínez, G., Pérez, Á.L., Pardo, P.J., Suero, M.I., Melgosa, M. (2016). Using Concept Maps to Develop a Didactic Explanation of a Dress with Ambigous Colours. In: Cañas, A., Reiska, P., Novak, J. (eds) Innovating with Concept Mapping. CMC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 635. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45501-3_24

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