Two experiments investigate the effects of language comprehension on affordances.
Participants read a sentence composed by either an observation or an action verb (Look …

Learners studying mechanical or technical processes via dynamic visualizations often fail to
build an accurate mental representation of the system's movements. Based on embodied …

Current debate in mental imagery research revolves around the perceptual and cognitive
role of eye movements to “nothing”(Ferreira, Apel, & Henderson, 2008; Richardson …

Working memory provides flexible storage of information in service of upcoming behavioral
goals. Some models propose specific fixed loci and mechanisms for the storage of visual …

Highlights•The oculomotor and hippocampal memory systems are both phylogenetically
old.•There is a vast structural and functional network linking the two systems.•Stored …

The vividness of Homeric poetry has been admired since antiquity, but has been difficult to
pin down with precision. It is usually thought to come about because readers are prompted …

Decades of cognitive neuroscience research has shown that where we look is intimately
connected to what we remember. In this article, we review findings from human and …

Evidence from recent experiments that monitored attention in clipart scenes during spoken
comprehension suggests that people preferably rely on non-stereotypical depicted events …

Investigations into the neural basis of memory in human and non-human primates have
focused on the hippocampus and associated medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures …

In recent work in cognitive science, it has been proposed that cognition is a self-organizing,
dynamical system. However, capturing the real-time dynamics of cognition has been a …