Sensory Motor Mechanisms Unify Psychology: The Embodiment of Culture

Sensory Motor Mechanisms Unify Psychology: The Embodiment of Culture

Sensorimotor mechanisms can unify explanations at cognitive, social, and cultural levels. As an example, we review how anticipated motor effort is used by individuals and groups to judge distance: the greater the anticipated effort the greater the perceived distance. Anticipated motor effort can...

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Main Authors: Tamer eSoliman, Alison eGibson, Arthur M Glenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Distance Perception
Embodied Cognition
culture
Self-construal
motor effort
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00885/full

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