Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Gaze Reinstatement(also: Gaze Reinstatement Effect, Looking-at-Nothing Paradigm)
- Gaze reinstatement is the cognitive phenomenon in which a person mentally recalling or imagining a previously seen scene reproduces, on a blank or unrelated surface, eye movement patterns similar to those made when the scene was first viewed. The effect was demonstrated through…
- Gaze Switching(also: Visual Attention Switching, Split Attention)
- The act of shifting visual focus between two or more information sources, such as between captions and presentation slides in a classroom, or between a sign language interpreter and a speaker. Gaze switching is particularly costly for deaf and hard of hearing students who rely…
- Germane Cognitive Load(also: Germane Load)
- One of three types of cognitive load identified by cognitive load theory, referring to the mental effort devoted to processing, constructing, and automating knowledge schemas — the productive cognitive work that leads to actual learning. Unlike extraneous load (which is…
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