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Goble, Daniel J.; Brown, Susan H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Recent studies of position-related proprioceptive sense have provided evidence of a nonpreferred left arm advantage in right-handed individuals. The present study sought to determine whether similar asymmetries might exist in "dynamic position" sense. Thirteen healthy, right-handed adults were blindfolded and seated with arms placed on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Brain Hemisphere Functions, Handedness, Kinesthetic Perception
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Zwaan, Rolf A.; Yaxley, Richard H. – Cognition, 2004
An experiment was conducted to examine whether perceptual information, specifically the shape of objects, is activated during semantic processing. Subjects judged whether a target word was related to a prime word. Prime-target pairs that were not associated, but whose referents had similar shapes (e.g. LADDER-RAILROAD) yielded longer ''no''…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Experiments, Patterned Responses