TY  - JOUR
A1  - Apel, Jens K.
A1  - Revie, Gavin F.
A1  - Cangelosi, Angelo
A1  - Ellis, Rob
A1  - Goslin, Jeremy
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions
JF  - Experimental brain research
N2  - We investigated the mental rehearsal of complex action instructions by recording spontaneous eye movements of healthy adults as they looked at objects on a monitor. Participants heard consecutive instructions, each of the form "move [object] to [location]''. Instructions were only to be executed after a go signal, by manipulating all objects successively with a mouse. Participants re-inspected previously mentioned objects already while listening to further instructions. This rehearsal behavior broke down after 4 instructions, coincident with participants' instruction span, as determined from subsequent execution accuracy. These results suggest that spontaneous eye movements while listening to instructions predict their successful execution.
KW  - Assembly task
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Overt attention
KW  - Rehearsal
KW  - Sequential instruction
KW  - Working memory
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2827-4
SN  - 0014-4819
VL  - 214
IS  - 2
SP  - 249
EP  - 259
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Brugger, Peter
T1  - When digits help digits  spatial-numerical associations point to finger counting as prime example of embodied cognition
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Spatial numerical associations (SNAs) are prevalent yet their origin is poorly understood. We first consider the possible prime role of reading habits in shaping SNAs and list three observations that argue against a prominent influence of this role: (1) directional reading habits for numbers may conflict with those for non-numerical symbols, (2) short-term experimental manipulations can overrule the impact of decades of reading experience, (3) SNAs predate the acquisition of reading. As a promising alternative, we discuss behavioral, neuroscientific, and neuropsychological evidence in support of finger counting as the most likely initial determinant of SNAs. Implications of this "manumerical cognition" stance for the distinction between grounded, embodied, and situated cognition are discussed.
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - finger counting
KW  - numerical cognition
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00260
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 2
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -