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Direct linkThomas, Laura E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Directed actions can play a causal role in cognition, shaping thought processes. What drives this cross-talk between action and thought? I investigated the hypothesis that representations in spatial working memory mediate interactions between directed actions and problem solving. Participants attempted to solve an insight problem while…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Experimental Psychology, Problem Solving
Mack, Michael L.; Palmeri, Thomas J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
We investigated whether there exists a behavioral dependency between object detection and categorization. Previous work (Grill-Spector & Kanwisher, 2005) suggests that object detection and basic-level categorization may be the very same perceptual mechanism: As objects are parsed from the background they are categorized at the basic level. In…
Descriptors: Classification, English (Second Language), Experimental Psychology, Investigations
