Original article
In line with theories of embodied cognition, hands-on experience is typically assumed to support learning. In the current paper, we explored this issue within the science domain of sinking objects. Adults had ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:28
Published on: 20 June 2017
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A mixed design was created using text and game-like multimedia to instruct in the content of physics. The study assessed which variables predicted learning gains after a 1-h lesson on the electric field. The t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:24
Published on: 24 May 2017
Brief report
Visual hallucinations are a common, distressing, and disabling symptom of Lewy body and other diseases. Current models suggest that interactions in internal cognitive processes generate hallucinations. However...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:26
Published on: 24 May 2017
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Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese manga than American comics. We us...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:27
Published on: 24 May 2017
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Our perception of depth is substantially enhanced by the fact that we have binocular vision. This provides us with more precise and accurate estimates of depth and an improved qualitative appreciation of the t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:25
Published on: 24 May 2017
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People draw automatic social inferences from photos of unfamiliar faces and these first impressions are associated with important real-world outcomes. Here we examine the effect of selecting online profile ima...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:23
Published on: 14 April 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The visual system can be highly influenced by changes to visual presentation. Thus, numerous techniques have been developed to augment imagery in an attempt to improve human perception. The current paper exami...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:19
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Human behavior is frequently described both in abstract, general terms and in concrete, specific terms. We asked whether these two ways of framing equivalent behaviors shift the inferences people make about th...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:17
Published on: 20 March 2017
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We argue that people compare values in graphs with a visual routine – attending to data values in an ordered pattern over time. Do these visual routines exist to manage capacity limitations in how many values can...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:20
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Understanding and reasoning about phenomena at scales outside human perception (for example, geologic time) is critical across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, devising strong methods t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:21
Published on: 20 March 2017
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People’s impression of their own “sense-of-direction” (SOD) is related to their ability to effectively find their way through environments, such as neighborhoods and cities, but is also related to the speed an...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:18
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Spatial thinking is a vital component of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum. However, to date, broad development of learning environments that target domain-specific spatial think...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:22
Published on: 20 March 2017
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A number of real-world search tasks (i.e. police search, detection of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)) require searchers to search exhaustively across open ground. In the present study, we simulated this p...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:14
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Gender induction has been claimed to be virtually impossible unless nouns provide reliable semantic or phonological gender-relevant cues. However, learners might exploit syntactic cues, such as definite articl...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:11
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Observational studies have shown that interruptions are a frequent occurrence in diagnostic radiology. The present study used an experimental design in order to quantify the cost of these interruptions during ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:12
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Spatial thinking skills positively relate to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) outcomes, but spatial training is largely absent in elementary school. Elementary school is a time when children d...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:13
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Holistic processing is often characterized as a process by which objects are perceived as a whole rather than a compilation of individual features. This mechanism may play an important role in the development ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:15
Published on: 20 February 2017
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According to sound symbolism theory, individual sounds or clusters of sounds can convey meaning. To examine the role of sound symbolic effects on processing and memory for nonwords, we developed a novel set of...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:10
Published on: 20 February 2017
Review article
Research on mathematics education has shown that learners’ actions can influence how they think and vice versa. Much of this work has been rooted in the use of manipulatives, gestures, and body movements. Our ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:16
Published on: 20 February 2017
Brief report
Prior research has shown that gestures that co-occur with speech can improve understanding of abstract concepts by embodying the underlying meaning of those concepts, thereby making them more accessible to the...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:2
Published on: 30 January 2017
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Attentional allocation is flexibly altered by action-related priorities. Given that tools – and specifically weapons – can affect attentional allocation, we asked whether training with a weapon or holding a we...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:3
Published on: 30 January 2017
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We develop a theory of grounded and embodied mathematical cognition (GEMC) that draws on action-cognition transduction for advancing understanding of how the body can support mathematical reasoning. GEMC propo...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:9
Published on: 30 January 2017
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To remember everyday activity it is important to encode it effectively, and one important component of everyday activity is that it consists of events. People who segment activity into events more adaptively h...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:1
Published on: 30 January 2017
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Media multitasking, the concurrent use of multiple media forms, has been shown to be related to greater self-reported impulsivity and less self-control. These measures are both hallmarks of the need for immedi...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:8
Published on: 30 January 2017
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Some investigators of the rubber hand illusion (RHI) have suggested that when standard RHI induction procedures are employed, if the rubber hand is experienced by participants as owned, their corresponding bio...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:4
Published on: 30 January 2017
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