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Explore the attention economy where your gaze is currency. Discover how digital age prizes cognitive currency and transforms attention into valuable assets.

Visual problem-solving is an essential skill for professionals in various visual domains. Novices in these domains acquire such skills through interactions with experts (e.g., apprenticeships). Experts guide novice visual problem-solving with scaffolding behaviours. However, there is little consensus about the description and classification of scaffolding behaviours in practice, and to our knowledge, no framework connects scaffolding to underlying cognitive mechanisms. Understanding effective scaffolding is particularly relevant to domain-specific expert-novice research regarding visual proble...

Many people assume labour is evenly split in same-gender couples. Our study revealed that’s not always necessarily the case.

Education in Australia is blighted by the misguided idea that children must be specifically taught collaboration and communication skills in the classroom, a prominent educational psychologist has said.

Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) research has shown that studying worked examples, which provide a step-by-step solution to a problem, can reduce cognitive load and support learning in well-structured learning domains relative to solving conventional problems. Two types of worked examples that have been widely used in CLT research are process oriented worked examples and product oriented worked examples. Process oriented worked examples provide step-by-step solutions to solve a problem, plus statements explaining the rationale for each step. Product oriented worked examples provide the step-by-step...