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Recently, neuroscientists, psychologists and pedagogues work on cognition, learning and teaching involving instructional technologies, each of them from their own point of view, towards a biological basis of learning.
This paper proposes the exploitation of neuropsychological methods and non-invasive imaging techniques for the study of mental conditions and especially of cognitive tasks in technologically enriched educational environments for science learning. It proposes the study of brain waves coming from different areas of the cortex and their spectral analysis using Fast Fourier Transforms for the understanding of various cognitive processes taking place during specific tasks of users interacting with computer-based educational environments, and especially virtual reality (VR) systems. The model proposed is supported by recent experimental findings reflecting greater alertness and task engagement in computer-based environments for science learning (Gerlic and Jausovec 1999) and educational virtual environments (Mikropoulos 2000a).
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Mikropoulos, T.A. (2003). Brain Research in Science Education Research. In: Psillos, D., Kariotoglou, P., Tselfes, V., Hatzikraniotis, E., Fassoulopoulos, G., Kallery, M. (eds) Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0165-5_37
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