Dartmouth study shows it creates social connections and allows for indirect learning
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Three Dartmouth professors honored with "Rising Star" award from the Association for Psychological Science for their early career achievements.
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"When we're paying full attention – like a small child – to events, we'll notice the succession of events. This will expand our experience of time. It will give us a much richer experience of the world. Everything – once you pay attention to it – is really quite amazing." - Dr. Peter Tse
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The students of Dr. Caroline Robertson's 21W Cognitive Neuroscience class can better understand course concepts by directly experiencing some of the psychological phenomena that they are learning about. Assistant Professor Robertson was awarded a grant from the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, in collaboration with John Bell at the Dev Studio, to develop VR experiments and experiences for the class.
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Regarding conversations, Dr. Wheatley told Scientific American journalist Rachel Nuwer, they are "such an elegant expression of mutual coordination, and yet it all falls apart at the end because we just can't figure out when to stop."
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