There are two basic mysteries about natura l language. The speed and ease with which i t is acquired by a ch i ld and the speed and ease with which i t is processed. S i m i l a r l y to language acqu is i t i on , language processing faces a strong inpu t -da ta -de f i c iency problem. When we speak we a l t e r a great l o t in the idea l ized phonological and phonetic representat ions. We d...

Eva Boergens 1,* ID , Karina Nielsen 2 ID , Ole Baltazar Andersen 2, Denise Dettmering 1 ID and Florian Seitz 1 ID 1 Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany; [email protected] (D.D.); [email protected] (F.S.) 2 Division of Geodesy, DTU Space, National Space Institute, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmar...

Edgar Vicente Torres-González 1, Raul Lugo-Leyte 1, Helen Denise Lugo-Méndez 1, Martin Salazar-Pereyra 2,* and Alejandro Torres-Aldaco 1 1 Departamento de Ingeniería de Procesos e Hidráulica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana—Iztapalapa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco No. 186, Col. Vicentina, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México 09340, Mexico; [email protected] (E.V.T.-G.); [email protected] (R.L.-L.); hdl...

Classical studies on enactment have highlighted the beneficial effects of gestures performed in the encoding phase on memory for words and sentences, for both adults and children. In the present investigation, we focused on the role of enactment for learning from scientific texts among primary-school children. We assumed that enactment would favor the construction of a mental model of the text,...