TY  - GEN
A1  - Lachmair, Martin
A1  - Ruiz Fernandez, Susana
A1  - Bury, Nils-Alexander
A1  - Gerjets, Peter
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Bock, Otmar L.
T1  - How body orientation affects concepts of space, time and valence
BT  - functional relevance of integrating sensorimotor experiences during word processing
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The aim of the present study was to test the functional relevance of the spatial concepts UP or DOWN for words that use these concepts either literally (space) or metaphorically (time, valence). A functional relevance would imply a symmetrical relationship between the spatial concepts and words related to these concepts, showing that processing words activate the related spatial concepts on one hand, but also that an activation of the concepts will ease the retrieval of a related word on the other. For the latter, the rotation angle of participant's body position was manipulated either to an upright or a head-down tilted body position to activate the related spatial concept. Afterwards participants produced in a within-subject design previously memorized words of the concepts space, time and valence according to the pace of a metronome. All words were related either to the spatial concept UP or DOWN. The results including Bayesian analyses show (1) a significant interaction between body position and words using the concepts UP and DOWN literally, (2) a marginal significant interaction between body position and temporal words and (3) no effect between body position and valence words. However, post-hoc analyses suggest no difference between experiments. Thus, the authors concluded that integrating sensorimotor experiences is indeed of functional relevance for all three concepts of space, time and valence. However, the strength of this functional relevance depends on how close words are linked to mental concepts representing vertical space.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 505 
KW  - mental timeline
KW  - cognition
KW  - language
KW  - representation
KW  - hypothesis
KW  - mechanisms
KW  - future
KW  - flies
KW  - line
KW  - mind
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-410942
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 505
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lachmair, Martin
A1  - Fernandez, Susana Ruiz
A1  - Bury, Nils-Alexander
A1  - Gerjets, Peter
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Bock, Otmar L.
T1  - How Body Orientation Affects Concepts of Space, Time and Valence: Functional Relevance of Integrating Sensorimotor Experiences during Word Processing
JF  - PLoS one
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165795
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 11
PB  - PLoS
CY  - San Fransisco
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beurskens, Rainer
A1  - Helmich, Ingo
A1  - Rein, Robert
A1  - Bock, Otmar L.
T1  - Age-related changes in prefrontal activity during walking in dual-task situations: A fNIRS study
JF  - International journal of psychophysiology
N2  - Background: Previous studies suggest that the human gait is under control of higher-order cognitive processes, located in the frontal lobes, such that an age-related degradation of cognitive capabilities has a negative impact on gait.
 Results: Our behavioral data partly confirm previous accounts on higher dual-task costs in stepping parameters (i.e., decreased step duration) in old age, particularly with a visual task and negative dual-task cost (i.e., improved performance) during the verbal task in young adults. Functional imaging data revealed little change of prefrontal activation from single- to dual-task walking in young individuals. In the elderly, however, prefrontal activation substantially decreased during dual-task walking with a complex visual task.
 Conclusion: We interpret these findings as evidence for a shift of processing resources from the prefrontal cortex to other brain regions when seniors face the challenge of walking and concurrently executing a visually demanding task. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - fNIRS
KW  - Aging
KW  - Locomotion
KW  - Neural activation
KW  - Executive function
KW  - Dual-task walking
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.03.005
SN  - 0167-8760
SN  - 1872-7697
VL  - 92
IS  - 3
SP  - 122
EP  - 128
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -