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Ruotolo, Francesco; Ruggiero, Gennaro; Arabia, Teresa Pia; Ott, Laurent; Coello, Yann; Bartolo, Angela; Iachini, Tina – Cognitive Science, 2022
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mental representation processes during the planning, reaching, and use phases of actions with tools commonly used toward the body (TB, e.g., toothbrush) or away from the body (AB, e.g., pencil). In the first session, healthy participants were asked to perform TB (i.e., making circular…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Cognitive Processes, Planning, Equipment
Hostetter, Autumn B.; Pouw, Wim; Wakefield, Elizabeth M. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Speakers often use gesture to demonstrate how to perform actions--for example, they might show how to open the top of a jar by making a twisting motion above the jar. Yet it is unclear whether listeners learn as much from seeing such gestures as they learn from seeing actions that physically change the position of objects (i.e., actually opening…
Descriptors: Memory, Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Processes, Motion
Zhang, Icy; Givvin, Karen B.; Sipple, Jeffrey M.; Son, Ji Y.; Stigler, James W. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Producing content-related gestures has been found to impact students' learning, whether such gestures are spontaneously generated by the learner in the course of problem-solving, or participants are instructed to pose based on experimenter instructions during problem-solving and word learning. Few studies, however, have investigated the effect of…
Descriptors: Motion, Human Body, Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Processes
Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Carlson, Matthew T.; Hemani-Lopez, Naureen – Cognitive Science, 2018
We examined the effects of three different training conditions, all of which involve the motor system, on kindergarteners' mental transformation skill. We focused on three main questions. First, we asked whether training that involves making a motor movement that is relevant to the mental transformation--either concretely through action (action…
Descriptors: Training, Teaching Methods, Psychomotor Skills, Kindergarten
Lakusta, Laura; Muentener, Paul; Petrillo, Lauren; Mullanaphy, Noelle; Muniz, Lauren – Cognitive Science, 2017
Previous studies have shown a robust bias to express the goal path over the source path when describing events ("the bird flew into the pitcher," rather than "… out of the bucket into the pitcher"). Motivated by linguistic theory, this study manipulated the causal structure of events (specifically, making the source cause the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Motion, Preschool Children, English
Springer, Anne; Brandstadter, Simone; Prinz, Wolfgang – Cognitive Science, 2013
Accurately predicting other people's actions may involve two processes: internal real-time simulation (dynamic updating) and matching recently perceived action images (static matching). Using a priming of body parts, this study aimed to differentiate the two processes. Specifically, participants played a motion-controlled video game with…
Descriptors: Human Body, Priming, Simulation, Prediction
Lakusta, Laura; Landau, Barbara – Cognitive Science, 2012
When people describe motion events, their path expressions are biased toward inclusion of goal paths (e.g., into the house) and omission of source paths (e.g., out of the house). In this paper, we explored whether this asymmetry has its origins in people's non-linguistic representations of events. In three experiments, 4-year-old children and…
Descriptors: Memory, Linguistics, Motion, Experiments
Teuscher, Ursina; McQuire, Marguerite; Collins, Jennifer; Coulson, Seana – Cognitive Science, 2008
Two experiments investigated whether motion metaphors for time affected the perception of spatial motion. Participants read sentences either about literal motion through space or metaphorical motion through time written from either the ego-moving or object-moving perspective. Each sentence was followed by a cartoon clip. Smiley-moving clips showed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Self Concept, Cartoons
Bergen, Benjamin K.; Lindsay, Shane; Matlock, Teenie; Narayanan, Srini – Cognitive Science, 2007
There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; Bergen, Narayan, & Feldman, 2003; Narayan, Bergen, & Weinberg, 2004; Richardson, Spivey, McRae, & Barsalou, 2003; Stanfield & Zwaan, 2001; Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002).…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
Pellecchia, Geraldine L.; Shockley, Kevin; Turvey, M. T. – Cognitive Science, 2005
Does a concurrent cognitive task affect the dynamics of bimanual rhythmic coordination? In-phase coordination was performed under manipulations of phase detuning and movement frequency and either singly or in combination with an arithmetic task. Predicted direction-specific shifts in stable relative phase from 0 degrees due to detuning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Motion, Arithmetic, Psychomotor Skills