Object affordance influences instruction span

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-206

  Apel, Jens K ^a,b   Cangelosi, Angelo ^c   Ellis, Rob ^c   Goslin, Jeremy ^c   Fischer, Martin H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action simulation; Affordance; Embodied cognition; Rehearsal; Sequential instruction; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFORDANCE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY SPAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871284186     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3251-0     Document Type: Article

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