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Carly Kontra
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 5
Citations - 366
Carly Kontra is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Action (philosophy) & Embodied cognition. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 314 citations.
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Physical Experience Enhances Science Learning
TL;DR: The physical experience, a brief exposure to forces associated with angular momentum, significantly improved quiz scores and was explained by activation of sensorimotor brain regions when students later reasoned about angular momentum.
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Embodied learning across the life span
TL;DR: It is argued that theories of embodiment can shed light on the role of action experience in early learning contexts, and further that these theories hold promise for using action to scaffold learning in more formal educational settings later in development.
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Gesturing has a larger impact on problem-solving than action, even when action is accompanied by words.
TL;DR: These findings contradict the hypothesis that gesture affects thought by promoting the coordination of task-relevant hand movements with task- relevant speech, and lend support to the hypotheses that gesture grounds thought in action via its representational properties.
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The Relationship between Mental and Somatic Practices and Wisdom
Patrick B. Williams,Heather Harden Mangelsdorf,Carly Kontra,Howard C. Nusbaum,Berthold Hoeckner +4 more
TL;DR: It is found that increased experience with meditation and ballet were both positively associated with wisdom, and that lowered trait anxiety mediated this positive association among meditation practitioners, and, non-significantly, among ballet dancers.
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In Physics Education, Perception Matters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the concept of center of gravity (CoG) to explain student difficulty in applying CoG to an object such as a baseball bat and find that it is perceptually difficult to locate the CoG of objects with asymmetric extended properties.