Borghi, Anna M.
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Journal of Cognition
The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded theories need to face, i.e., that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired, represented, and used. I illustrate the view according to which abstract concepts are grounded not only in sensorimotor experiences, like concrete concepts, but also and t...
Huettig, Falk Guerra, Ernesto Helo, Andrea
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Journal of Cognition
A main challenge for theories of embodied cognition is to understand the task dependency of embodied language processing. One possibility is that perceptual representations (e.g., typical colour of objects mentioned in spoken sentences) are not activated routinely but the influence of perceptual representation emerges only when context strongly sup...
Broeker, Laura Ewolds, Harald de Oliveira, Rita F. Künzell, Stefan Raab, Markus
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Journal of Cognition
Visual information and prior knowledge represent two different sources of predictability for tasks which each have been reported to have a beneficial effect on dual-task performance. What if the two were combined? Adding multiple sources of predictability might, on the one hand, lead to additive, beneficial effects on dual-tasking. On the other han...
Karabay, Aytaç Kurylo, Daniel D.
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Journal of Cognition
Perceived global organization of visual patterns is based upon the aggregate contribution of constituent components. Patterns constructed from multiple sources cooperate or compete for global organization. An investigation was made here of interactions between two interspersed element sets on global orientation. It was hypothesized that each set wo...
Holgado, Darías Sanabria, Daniel Perales, José C. Vadillo, Miguel A.
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Journal of Cognition
There is an ongoing debate in the scientific community regarding whether a state of mental fatigue may have a negative effect upon a range of objective and subjective measures of human performance. This issue has attracted attention from several fields, including sport and exercise sciences. In fact, a considerable body of literature in the sport s...
Koob, Valentin Durst, Moritz Bratzke, Daniel Ulrich, Rolf Janczyk, Markus
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Journal of Cognition
A frequent observation in dual-task experiments is that performance in Task 1 is influenced by conceptual or spatial overlap with features of Task 2. Such compatibility-based backward crosstalk effects (BCEs) can occur when overlap exists between the responses of two tasks–the R1-R2 BCE–or between the stimulus in Task 1 and the response in Task 2–t...
Schmid, Philipp Schwarzer, Marius Betsch, Cornelia
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Journal of Cognition
In mass media, the positions of science deniers and scientific-consensus advocates are repeatedly presented in a balanced manner. This false balance increases the spread of misinformation under the guise of objectivity. Weight-of-evidence strategies are an alternative, in which journalists lend weight to each position that is equivalent to the amou...
Cayol, Zoé Nazir, Tatjana A.
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Journal of Cognition
Whether language comprehension requires the participation of brain structures that evolved for perception and action has been a subject of intense debate. While brain-imaging evidence for the involvement of such modality-specific regions has grown, the fact that lesions to these structures do not necessarily erase word knowledge has invited the con...
Eisma, Yke Bauke de Winter, Joost
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Journal of Cognition
In the inspection time (IT) paradigm, participants view two lines of unequal length (called the Pi-figure) for a short exposure time, and then judge which of the two lines was longer. Early research has interpreted IT as a simple index of mental speed, which does not involve motor activity. However, more recent studies have associated IT with highe...
Dudschig, Carolin Kaup, Barbara
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Journal of Cognition
Negation is a critical cognitive operator that is investigated across a wide range of psychological phenomena (e.g., language, eating control, emotion control, stereotype processing). A core function of negation is reversing input information. In the current study, we investigated whether this reversing process benefits from temporal preparation. I...