LEARNING HUB

Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.

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Barry Zimmerman: self-regulated learning

Barry J. Zimmerman helped transform self-regulated learning from a vague ideal of independent study into a research programme about how learners set goals, use strategies, monitor performance, manage motivation and reflect on outcomes across recurring cycles of action.

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Basic psychological needs

A person is given a choice of two ways to complete a project, enough guidance to make progress, and colleagues who treat their contribution as welcome.…

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Behavioral activation

A person who is depressed may stop doing activities that once brought interest, connection or a sense of competence. Reduced activity can narrow access…

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Body awareness paradigms

A methodological map of performance tasks, self-report, proprioception, body ownership, movement and experience sampling, and why no single paradigm measures ‘the body’ as one capacity

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Body image

The perceptual, cognitive, emotional and social meanings through which a person experiences their own body

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Body ownership

How the nervous system builds the ordinary feeling that this body is mine, and what laboratory illusions do and do not prove

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Body schema

The action-oriented representation that helps the nervous system know the body’s configuration, scale and possibilities for movement

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