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de la Vega, Irmgard; de Filippis, Monica; Lachmair, Martin; Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people associate positive things with the side of space that corresponds to their dominant hand and negative things with the side corresponding to their nondominant hand. Our aim was to find out whether this association holds also true for a response time study using linguistic stimuli, and whether…
Descriptors: Handedness, Reaction Time, Association (Psychology), Verbal Stimuli
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Mani, Nivedita; Schneider, Signe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Visual cues from the speaker's face, such as the discriminable mouth movements used to produce speech sounds, improve discrimination of these sounds by adults. The speaker's face, however, provides more information than just the mouth movements used to produce speech--it also provides a visual indexical cue of the identity of the speaker. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication
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Mani, Nivedita; Huettig, Falk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Are there individual differences in children's prediction of upcoming linguistic input and what do these differences reflect? Using a variant of the preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, Cauley, & Gordon, 1987), we found that, upon hearing a sentence like, "The boy eats a big cake," 2-year-olds fixate edible objects…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Evidence, Form Classes (Languages)