The floor is nearer than the sky: How looking up or down affects construal level

A Van Kerckhove, M Geuens… - Journal of Consumer …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This research shows that consumers select a different product when they look down versus
up. Because (1) people are accustomed to looking down to process nearby stimuli and to …

Perceptual content and the content of mental imagery

B Nanay - Philosophical Studies, 2015 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to argue that the phenomenal similarity between perceiving and
visualizing can be explained by the similarity between the structure of the content of these …

Embodiment, simulation and meaning

B Bergen - The Routledge handbook of semantics, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. If I say to you [“There is a
bag of potatoes in my pantry”] you may not know whether what I said is true. What you do …

Spatial biases during mental arithmetic: Evidence from eye movements on a blank screen

M Hartmann, FW Mast, MH Fischer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
While the influence of spatial-numerical associations in number categorization tasks has
been well established, their role in mental arithmetic is less clear. It has been hypothesized …

Eye movements reveal memory processes during similarity-and rule-based decision making

A Scholz, B von Helversen, J Rieskamp - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent research suggests that when people retrieve information from memory they tend to
fixate on the location where the information had appeared during encoding. We used this …

Tracking down the path of memory: eye scanpaths facilitate retrieval of visuospatial information

A Bochynska, B Laeng - Cognitive processing, 2015 - Springer
Recent research points to a crucial role of eye fixations on the same spatial locations where
an item appeared when learned, for the successful retrieval of stored information (eg, Laeng …

Keeping an eye on serial order: Ocular movements bind space and time

L Rinaldi, P Brugger, CJ Bockisch, G Bertolini, L Girelli - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study examined whether traveling through serially-ordered verbal memories
exploits overt visuospatial attentional resources. In a three-phase behavioral study, five …

Words, objects, and locations: Perceptual matching explains spatial interference and facilitation

Z Estes, M Verges, JS Adelman - Journal of Memory and Language, 2015 - Elsevier
Many common words have spatial associations (eg,“bird,”“jump”) that, counterintuitively,
hinder identification of visual targets at their associated location. For example,“bird” hinders …

Interaction between attention and language systems in humans

RK Mishra - A cognitive science perspective/RK Mishra.—New …, 2015 - Springer
Most first books originate from experience of teaching. The idea of this book probably
originated when I started examining the interaction of language and vision few years ago at …

Personal memories

M Trakas - 2015 - philpapers.org
This thesis is intended to analyze a mental phenomenon widely neglected in current
philosophical discussions: personal memories. The first part presents a general framework …