TY  - JOUR
A1  - Myachykov, Andriy
A1  - Cangelosi, Angelo
A1  - Ellis, Rob
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - The oculomotor resonance effect in spatial-numerical mapping
JF  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - We investigated automatic Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect in auditory number processing. Two experiments continually measured spatial characteristics of ocular drift at central fixation during and after auditory number presentation. Consistent with the notion of a spatially oriented mental number line, we found spontaneous magnitude-dependent gaze adjustments, both with and without a concurrent saccadic task. This fixation adjustment (1) had a small-number/left-lateralized bias and (2) it was biphasic as it emerged for a short time around the point of lexical access and it received later robust representation around following number onset. This pattern suggests a two-step mechanism of sensorimotor mapping between numbers and space a first-pass bottom-up activation followed by a top-down and more robust horizontal SNARC Our results inform theories of number processing as well as simulation-based approaches to cognition by identifying the characteristics of an oculomotor resonance phenomenon. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Attention
KW  - Embodied cognition
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Oculomotor resonance
KW  - Ocular drift
KW  - SNARC
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.09.006
SN  - 0001-6918
SN  - 1873-6297
VL  - 161
SP  - 162
EP  - 169
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Apel, Jens K.
A1  - Cangelosi, Angelo
A1  - Ellis, Rob
A1  - Goslin, Jeremy
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Object affordance influences instruction span
JF  - Experimental brain research
N2  - We measured memory span for assembly instructions involving objects with handles oriented to the left or right side. Right-handed participants remembered more instructions when objects' handles were spatially congruent with the hand used in forthcoming assembly actions. No such affordance-based memory benefit was found for left-handed participants. These results are discussed in terms of motor simulation as an embodied rehearsal mechanism.
KW  - Action simulation
KW  - Affordance
KW  - Embodied cognition
KW  - Rehearsal
KW  - Sequential instruction
KW  - Working memory
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3251-0
SN  - 0014-4819
VL  - 223
IS  - 2
SP  - 199
EP  - 206
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -