Words That Move Us. The Effects of Sentences on Body Sway.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology June 30, 2017 John F Stins, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Femke Hulzinga et al.
According to the embodied cognition perspective, cognitive systems and perceptuo-motor systems are deeply intertwined and exert a causal effect on each other. A prediction following from this idea is that cognitive activity can result in subtle changes in observable movement. In one experiment, we tested whether reading various sentences resulted in changes in postural sway. Sentences...
DOI: 10.5709/acp-0215-9 (opens in new tab)
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Motor control
Postural sway
Language processing
Embodied cognition