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Guida, Alessandro; Porret, Axelle – Cognitive Science, 2022
Recent studies on the spatial positional associated response codes (SPoARC) effect have shown that when Western adults are asked to keep in mind sequences of verbal items, they mentally spatialize them along the horizontal axis, with the initial items being associated with the left and the last items being associated with the right. The origin of…
Descriptors: Musicians, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Learning Theories
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Van Hoey, Thomas; Thompson, Arthur L.; Do, Youngah; Dingemanse, Mark – Cognitive Science, 2023
Iconicity, or the resemblance between form and meaning, is often ascribed to a special status and contrasted with default assumptions of arbitrariness in spoken language. But does iconicity in spoken language have a special status when it comes to learnability? A simple way to gauge learnability is to see how well something is retrieved from…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes, Speech Communication, Memory