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Université de Fribourg

Learning from scientific texts: personalizing the text increases transfer performance and task involvement

Dutke, Stephan ; Grefe, Anna Christiane ; Leopold, Claudia

In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016, vol. 31, no. 4, p. 499-513

In an experiment with 65 high-school students, we tested the hypothesis that personalizing learning materials would increase students’ learning performance and motivation to study the learning materials. Students studied either a 915-word standard text on the anatomy and functionality of the human eye or a personalized version of the same text in which 60 definite articles (e.g., “the...

Université de Fribourg

Effects of strategy instructions on learning from text and pictures

Leopold, Claudia ; Doerner, Marcel ; Leutner, Detlev ; Dutke, Stephan

In: Instructional Science, 2015, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 345-364

In two experiments, we compared effects of instructions that encourage learners to create referential connections between words and pictures with instructions that distract learners from creating referential connections. In Experiment 1, students read a scientific text under four conditions. In the text-picture condition, students read the illustrated text without strategy instructions. In...

Université de Fribourg

Dorsolateral prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation modulates language processing but does not facilitate overt second language word production

Radman, Narges ; Britz, Juliane ; Buetler, Karin ; Weekes, Brendan S. ; Spierer, Lucas ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018, vol. 12, p. -

Word retrieval in bilingual speakers partly depends on executive-control systems in the left prefrontal cortex - including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). We tested the hypothesis that DLPFC modulates word production of words specifically in a second language (L2) by measuring the effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (anodal-tDCS) over the DLPFC on picture naming...

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The Conception of Life in Synthetic Biology

Deplazes-Zemp, Anna

In: Science and Engineering Ethics, 2012, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 757-774