Educational Robotics and empowerment of executive cognitive processes: from typical development to special educational needs

• Main Authors: Emanuela Castro (Author), Maria Di Lieto (Author), Chiara Pecini (Author), Emanuela Inguaggiato (Author), Francesca Cecchi (Author), Paolo Dario (Author), Giovanni Cioni (Author), Giuseppina Sgandurra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Firenze University Press, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This paper describes a new Educational Robotic (ER) approach aimed to empower higher cognitive functions in school-setting. As robot programming requires to mentally plan a complex sequence of actions before the motor act, ER may indeed promote several crucial cognitive processes underlying learning...