TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felisatti, Arianna
A1  - Aagten-Murphy, David
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - The brain’s asymmetric frequency tuning
BT  - asymmetric behavior originates from asymmetric perception
JF  - Symmetry / Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
N2  - To construct a coherent multi-modal percept, vertebrate brains extract low-level features (such as spatial and temporal frequencies) from incoming sensory signals. However, because frequency processing is lateralized with the right hemisphere favouring low frequencies while the left favours higher frequencies, this introduces asymmetries between the hemispheres. Here, we describe how this lateralization shapes the development of several cognitive domains, ranging from visuo-spatial and numerical cognition to language, social cognition, and even aesthetic appreciation, and leads to the emergence of asymmetries in behaviour. We discuss the neuropsychological and educational implications of these emergent asymmetries and suggest future research approaches.
KW  - asymmetry
KW  - global
KW  - local
KW  - spatial frequencies
KW  - temporal frequencies
KW  - embodied cognition
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12122083
SN  - 2073-8994
VL  - 12
IS  - 12
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hatukai, Tatiana
A1  - Algom, Daniel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Rodin has it!
BT  - the role of hands in improving the selectivity of attention
JF  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - We report a new discovery on the role of hands in guiding attention, using the classic Stroop effect as our assay. We show that the Stroop effect diminishes, hence selective attention improves, when observers hold their chin, emulating Rodin's famous sculpture, "The Thinker." In two experiments we show that the Rodin posture improves the selectivity of attention as efficiently as holding the hands nearby the visual stimulus (the near-hands effect). Because spatial proximity to the displayed stimulus is neither present nor intended, the presence of the Rodin effect implies that attentional prioritization by the hands is not limited to the space between the hands.
KW  - Rodin posture
KW  - attention
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - stroop-effect
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103160
SN  - 0001-6918
SN  - 1873-6297
VL  - 210
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felisatti, Arianna
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Commentary
BT  - A mental number line in human newborns
JF  - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
KW  - spatial-numerical associations
KW  - SNARC
KW  - mental number line (MNL)
KW  - spatial frequency (SF)
KW  - temporal frequency
KW  - hemispheric asymmetry
KW  - newborns
KW  - embodied cognition
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00099
SN  - 1662-5161
VL  - 14
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -