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Kessler, Klaus; Thomson, Lindsey Anne – Cognition, 2010
Humans are able to mentally adopt the spatial perspective of others and understand the world from their point of view. We propose that spatial perspective taking (SPT) could have developed from the physical alignment of perspectives. This would support the notion that others have put forward claiming that SPT is an embodied cognitive process. We…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Perspective Taking, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes
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Sato, Atsushi – Cognition, 2009
The sense of agency is the sense that one is causing an action. The inferential account of the sense of agency proposes that we experience the sense of agency when we infer that one's own thoughts are the cause of an action. According to this account, the inference occurs when a thought appears in consciousness prior to an action, is consistent…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Influences, Congruence (Psychology)
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Cook, Susan Wagner; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognition, 2009
We explored how speakers and listeners use hand gestures as a source of perceptual-motor information during naturalistic communication. After solving the Tower of Hanoi task either with real objects or on a computer, speakers explained the task to listeners. Speakers' hand gestures, but not their speech, reflected properties of the particular…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Listening, Audiences
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Song, Joo-Hyun; Nakayama, Ken – Cognition, 2008
Nearly all studies on perception and cognition have used discrete responses to infer internal cognitive processes. In the current study, we demonstrate that visually-guided manual reaching can provide new opportunities to access internal processes over time. In each trial, participants were required to compare a single digit Arabic number…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Cognitive Processes, Perception, Case Studies
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Sato, Atsushi; Yasuda, Asako – Cognition, 2005
It is proposed that knowledge of motor commands is used to distinguish self-generated sensation from externally generated sensation. In this paper, we show that the sense of self-agency, that is the sense that I am the one who is generating an action, largely depends on the degree of discrepancy resulting from comparison between the predicted and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Feedback, Perceptual Motor Learning