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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring the neural representation of interpretive frameworks, motor planning for joint action, and the influence of attention on spatial resolution.
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Visual Biases Near the Hands Help Us Perform Specific Actions
Using your hands to perform tasks in specific ways can change the way you see things near your hands, findings from two experiments show.
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Is Your Steering Wheel in Safe Hands?
Changes to the way drivers’ position their hands on the steering wheel may be a useful proxy for detecting perceptions of risk and cognitive demand.
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Ready, Set, Type! Touch Typists Are Faster, But Not By Much
The first typewriter, invented by a newspaper printer and editor named Christopher Sholes in 1868, had a keyboard arranged like piano keys. Initially, the inventors thought that an alphabetical arrangement of 28 letters in a
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: An Embodied Account of Early Executive-Function Development: Prospective Motor Control in Infancy Is Related to Inhibition and Working Memory Janna M. Gottwald, Sheila Achermann, Carin Marciszko, Marcus
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Yours or Mine? How We Handle Objects Depends on Who Owns Them
From scissors and staplers to car keys and cell phones, we pass objects to other people every day. We often try to pass the objects so that the handle or other useful feature is facing
