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“Like a ball and chain”: Altering locomotion effort perception distorts spatial representations

This study aimed at demonstrating the role of sensorimotor information through the influence of walking effort perception on the process of route planning for navigation. Participants were asked to walk wearing weighted or non-weighted ankle belts …

Moving beyond the distinction between concrete and abstract concepts

From the perspective of the situated conceptualization framework, the pri- mary purpose of concepts is for categorizing and integrating elements of situations to support goal-directed action (including communication and social interaction). To the …

Neuropsydia.py: A Python Module for Creating Experiments, Tasks and Questionnaires

Neuropsychology encompasses two intimately related aspects: experimental research and clinical activity. Yet, the gap between these two facets has been severely increasing over the last decades due to the developpement of new technological ressources …

Cognition incarnée : un point de vue sur les représentations spatiales

La cognition incarnée est un mouvement de pensée qui s’est développé en opposition avec le cognitivisme traditionnel. Elle considère que l’esprit ne doit pas être conçu comme un ordinateur, mais doit être comprisdanslecontextedeson corps, et de …

Learning is better with the hands free: The role of posture in the memory of manipulable objects

Grounded cognition proposes that memory shares processing resources with sensorimotor systems. The aim of the present study was to show that motor simulation participates in the conceptual representation of manipulable objects in long-term memory. In …