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Body-Specific Representations of Spatial Location
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Brunye, Tad T.; Gardony, Aaron; Mahoney, Caroline R.; Taylor, Holly A. – Cognition, 2012
The body specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) posits that the way in which people interact with the world affects their mental representation of information. For instance, right- versus left-handedness affects the mental representation of affective valence, with right-handers categorically associating good with rightward areas and bad with…
Descriptors: Handedness, Memory, Spatial Ability, Experiments