The Cortex special issue on Conceptual Knowledge, co-edited by Emiko Muraki (@emij.bsky.social), Richard Binney (@rjbinney.bsky.social), Penny Pexman (@pennypexman.bsky.social) and myself is still accepting submissions.
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Glad to see this finally out! Grateful to have been part of such a large collaborative effort:
✨️ Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory
📚 Out now in AMPPS
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I'm so excited to share our new paper! 🎉 After ten years in the making, it's finally out in Journal of Memory and Language!
We present preliminary evidence that perturbing motor activity shapes how people conceptualize the meaning of action sentences.
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Entrevista en @sermalaga.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente artículo en Behavior Research Methods link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Our very first Registered Report has been published! 🎉
In short, we failed to replicate the Construal Level Theory's tenet that spatial distance promotes abstraction...
...but we provide novel evidence for a link between religiosity and abstraction.
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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC
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🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨
2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience
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Can the body shape meaning? Eight experiments (four preregistered) tested whether interfering with the motor system changes how people interpret langu…
This registered report (N = 2,466; >90% power to detect d ≥ 0.13) tested whether imagining oneself in large and religious places, such as cathedrals, promotes abstract thinking. Participants imagin...
