Research Digest
Explore a curated collection of recent studies, publications, and groundbreaking discoveries on the topic of embodied cognitive science.
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Sympathetic arousal, but not disturbed executive functioning, mediates the impairment of cognitive flexibility under stress
Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 94-102 Abstract "Cognitive flexibility emerges from an interplay of multiple cognitive systems, of which lexical-semantic and executive are thought to be the most important. Yet this has not been addressed by previous studies demonstrating that ...
A thought in the park: The influence of naturalness and low-level visual features on expressed thoughts
Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 82-93 Abstract "Prior research has shown that the physical characteristics of one’s environment have wide ranging effects on affect and cognition. Other research has demonstrated that one’s thoughts have impacts on mood and behavior, ...
More far is more right: Manual and ocular line bisections, but not the Judd illusion, depend on radial space
Published in:Â Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 34-43 Abstract "Line bisection studies generally find a left-to-right shift in bisection bias with increasing distance between the observer and the target line, which may be explained by hemispheric differences in the ...
Effects of metric hierarchy and rhyme predictability on word duration in The Cat in the Hat
Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 71-81 Abstract "Word durations convey many types of linguistic information, including intrinsic lexical features like length and frequency and contextual features like syntactic and semantic structure. The current study was designed to investigate whether hierarchical metric ...
Inferring causes during speech perception
Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 55-70 Abstract "One of the central challenges in speech perception is the lack of invariance: talkers differ in how they map words onto the speech signal. Previous work has shown that one mechanism by which listeners ...
