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Yeo, Amelia; Alibali, Martha W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Past research suggests that speakers gesture more when motor simulations are more strongly activated. We investigate whether simulations of a perceptual nature also influence gesture production. Participants viewed animations of a spider moving with a manner of motion that was either highly salient (n = 29) or less salient (n = 31) and then…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Nonverbal Communication, Simulation, Animation
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Oppezzo, Marily; Schwartz, Daniel L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. In Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed Guilford's alternate uses (GAU) test of creative divergent thinking and the compound remote associates (CRA) test of convergent thinking. Walking increased 81% of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Experimental Psychology, Physical Activities, Motion