Research Digest
Explore a curated collection of recent studies, publications, and groundbreaking discoveries on the topic of embodied cognitive science.
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The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?
Published in:Â Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1686-1717 Abstract "For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary origin ...
The goal of locomotion: Separating the fundamental task from the mechanisms that accomplish it
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1676-1685 Abstract "Human locomotion has been well described but is still not well understood. This is largely true because the observable aspects of locomotion—neuromuscular activity that generates forces ...
Aging is associated with a prefrontal lateral-medial shift during picture-induced negative affect
Published in:Â Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 156-163 Abstract "The capacity to adaptively respond to negative emotion is in part dependent upon lateral areas of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Lateral PFC areas are particularly susceptible to age-related ...
Number comparison and number ordering as predictors of arithmetic performance in adults: Exploring the link between the two skills, and investigating the question of domain-specificity
Published in:Â The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2497-2517 Abstract "Recent evidence has highlighted the important role that number-ordering skills play in arithmetic abilities, both in children and adults. In the current study, we demonstrated that number ...
Evidence for a confidence–accuracy relationship in memory for same- and cross-race faces
Published in:Â The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2518-2534 Abstract "Discrimination accuracy is usually higher for same- than for cross-race faces, a phenomenon known as the cross-race effect (CRE). According to prior research, the CRE occurs because ...
