Instructional modality influences neurocognitive engagement during moral learning
Sakshi Chauhan, Arnav Bhavsar, Varun Dutt · 2025
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Description
Chauhan, Bhavsar, and Dutt compare two ways of teaching a moral tale: a chatty social robot driven by a language model, and plain reading. Fifty students get an Indian fable by one route or the other, take a quiz, and wear EEG sensors during the lesson. The team tracks a brain signal for emotional engagement and one for mental integration.
Scores and brain measures end up much the same in both groups. Inside the robot group, though, stronger comprehension trends with a brain pattern tied to approach motivation. The authors argue that brain measures can reveal quiet, personal engagement effects that test scores alone would miss.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sakshi Chauhan, Arnav Bhavsar, Varun Dutt |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |