@article{MyachykovScheepersFischeretal.2014,
  author    = {Myachykov, Andriy and Scheepers, Christoph and Fischer, Martin H. and Kessler, Klaus},
  title     = {TEST: A tropic, embodied, and situated theory of cognition},
  series = {Topics in cognitive science},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Topics in cognitive science},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1756-8757},
  doi       = {10.1111/tops.12024},
  pages     = {442 -- 460},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness. Tropic representational features reflect constraints of the physical world on the agent's ability to form, reactivate, and enrich embodied (i.e., resulting from the agent's bodily constraints) conceptual representations embedded in situated contexts. The proposed hierarchy entails that representations can, in principle, have tropic features without necessarily having situated and/or embodied features. On the other hand, representations that are situated and/or embodied are likely to be simultaneously tropic. Hence, although we propose tropism as the most general term, the hierarchical relationship between embodiment and situatedness is more on a par, such that the dominance of one component over the other relies on the distinction between offline storage versus online generation as well as on representation-specific properties.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NazirHrycykMoreauetal.2017,
  author    = {Nazir, Tatjana A. and Hrycyk, Lianna and Moreau, Quentin and Frak, Victor and Cheylus, Anne and Ott, Laurent and Lindemann, Oliver and Fischer, Martin H. and Paulignan, Yves and Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne},
  title     = {A simple technique to study embodied language processes},
  series = {Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society},
  volume    = {49},
  journal   = {Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1554-351X},
  doi       = {10.3758/s13428-015-0696-7},
  pages     = {61 -- 73},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Research in cognitive neuroscience has shown that brain structures serving perceptual, emotional, and motor processes are also recruited during the understanding of language when it refers to emotion, perception, and action. However, the exact linguistic and extralinguistic conditions under which such language-induced activity in modality-specific cortex is triggered are not yet well understood. The purpose of this study is to introduce a simple experimental technique that allows for the online measure of language-induced activity in motor structures of the brain. This technique consists in the use of a grip force sensor that captures subtle grip force variations while participants listen to words and sentences. Since grip force reflects activity in motor brain structures, the continuous monitoring of force fluctuations provides a fine-grained estimation of motor activity across time. In other terms, this method allows for both localization of the source of language-induced activity to motor brain structures and high temporal resolution of the recorded data. To facilitate comparison of the data to be collected with this tool, we present two experiments that describe in detail the technical setup, the nature of the recorded data, and the analyses (including justification about the data filtering and artifact rejection) that we applied. We also discuss how the tool could be used in other domains of behavioral research.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PollatosFuestoesCritchley2012,
  author    = {Pollatos, Olga and Fuestoes, Juergen and Critchley, Hugo D.},
  title     = {On the generalised embodiment of pain: how interoceptive sensitivity modulates cutaneous pain perception},
  series = {Pain : journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain},
  volume    = {153},
  journal   = {Pain : journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0304-3959},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.pain.2012.04.030},
  pages     = {1680 -- 1686},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Individual differences in interoceptive sensitivity are associated with differences in reported intensity of emotional experience, vulnerability to anxiety and mood disorder and capacity for emotional self-regulation. Enhanced sensitivity to autonomic state is often accompanied by increased autonomic reactivity. Here we tested the hypothesis that healthy people classified as more interoceptively sensitive, by their performance of a heartbeat monitoring task, will demonstrate enhanced perception of pain. We further explored whether this effect is associated with a greater physiological reactivity to the pain stimuli. Using an algometer, cutaneous pressure pain was applied to the thenar eminence in 60 healthy participants. Heart rate variability and respiratory activity were recorded concurrently. We observed significant relationships between heightened interoceptive sensitivity and both enhanced sensitivity and decreased tolerance to pain. These effects were accompanied by a more pronounced parasympathetic decrease and a change in sympathovagal balance during pain assessment in the high, compared to the low, interoceptively sensitive group. Our study provides novel evidence that interoceptive sensitivity is associated with the experience and tolerability of pain in conjunction with reactive changes in autonomic balance.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{PollatosFuestoesCritchley2012,
  author    = {Pollatos, Olga and Fuestoes, J{\"u}rgen and Critchley, Hugo},
  title     = {On the generalized embodiment of pain how interoceptive sensitivitymodulates cutaneous pain perception},
  series = {Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research},
  volume    = {49},
  booktitle = {Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0048-5772},
  pages     = {S104 -- S104},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{WinterMatlockShakietal.2015,
  author    = {Winter, Bodo and Matlock, Teenie and Shaki, Samuel and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Mental number space in three dimensions},
  series = {Neuroscience \& biobehavioral reviews : official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society},
  volume    = {57},
  journal   = {Neuroscience \& biobehavioral reviews : official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0149-7634},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.09.005},
  pages     = {209 -- 219},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {A large number of experimental findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology demonstrated interactions between spatial cognition and numerical cognition. In particular, many researchers posited a horizontal mental number line, where small numbers are thought of as being to the left of larger numbers. This review synthesizes work on the mental association between space and number, indicating the existence of multiple spatial mappings: recent research has found associations between number and vertical space, as well as associations between number and near/far space. We discuss number space in three dimensions with an eye on potential origins of the different number mappings, and how these number mappings fit in with our current knowledge of brain organization and brain-culture interactions. We derive novel predictions and show how this research fits into a general view of cognition as embodied, grounded and situated. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}