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How Our Bodies Do — and Don’t — Shape Our Minds
Moving our legs, hands, and other body parts shape our lives as we traverse our environments. Jessica Witt, Amy Cuddy, Susan Wagner Cook, and Ted Supalla share their research investigating how our bodies influence the way we see, feel, learn, and communicate.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring links between alpha-band oscillations and spatial attention and the role of iconicity in learning sign language.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring statistical learning in speech segmentation and links between weight-related perceptions and long-term health outcomes.
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How Our Bodies Do – and Don’t – Shape Our Minds
Individuals’ bodies and their abilities to act within their environments shape their perceptions of their surroundings, says psychological scientist Jessica Witt, Colorado State University. Witt discussed the psychophysics experiments she’s conducted to demonstrate these perceptions during one of four presentations in a Presidential Symposium chaired by Susan Goldin-Meadow.
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Lila Gleitman on Language Evolution
In the Fred A. Kavli Keynote Address at the 29th APS Annual Convention, APS Fellow Lila R.Gleitman shared her six decades of theoretical and empirical work on the remarkably sophisticated way that children acquire language. See the complete presentation.
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Racial ‘disparity’ in police respect
BBC: Scientists developed a way to measure levels of respect, based on the officers’ language during routine traffic stops in Oakland City. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It
