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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
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Ditman, Tali; Brunye, Tad T.; Mahoney, Caroline R.; Taylor, Holly A. – Cognition, 2010
Recent research has suggested that reading involves the mental simulation of events and actions described in a text. It is possible however that previous findings did not tap into processes engaged during natural reading but rather those triggered by task demands. The present study examined whether readers spontaneously mentally simulate the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Memory, Prediction, Reading Processes