Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:07:45 BST CiteULike: mbregman's embodiment http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/tag/embodiment CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/article/532063 <i>Science, Vol. 308, No. 5727. (3 June 2005), 1430.</i><br /><br />We hear the melody in music, but we feel the beat. We demonstrate that the perception of musical rhythm is a multisensory experience in infancy. In particular, movement of the body, by bouncing on every second versus every third beat of an ambiguous auditory rhythm pattern, influences whether that auditory rhythm pattern is encoded in duple form (a march) or in triple form (a waltz). Visual information is not necessary for the effect, indicating that it likely reflects a strong, early-developing interaction between auditory and vestibular information in the human nervous system. Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception Jessica Phillips-Silver Laurel Trainor doi:10.1126/science.1110922 Science, Vol. 308, No. 5727. (3 June 2005), 1430. 2006-03-07T00:53:43-00:00 2005 Science 308 5727 1430 auditory cross-modal embodiment musicperception rhythm http://www.citeulike.org/user/mbregman/article/2254099 <i>Psychological Research, Vol. 65, No. 4. (14 November 2001), pp. 235-241.</i><br /><br />It is hypothesized that eye movements are used to coordinate elements of a mental model with elements of the visual field. In two experiments, eye movements were recorded while observers imagined or recalled objects that were not present in the visual display. In both cases, observers spontaneously looked at particular blank regions of space in a systematic fashion, to manipulate and organize spatial relationships between mental and/or retinal images. These results contribute to evidence that interpreting a linguistic description of a visual scene requires a spatial (mental model) representation, and they support claims regarding the allocation of position markers in visual space for the manipulation of visual attention. More broadly, our results point to a concrete embodiment of cognition, in that a construction of a mental image is almost "acted out" by the eye movements, and a mental search of internal memory is accompanied by an ocolumotor search of external space. Oculomotor mechanisms activated by imagery and memory: eye movements to absent objects Michael Spivey Joy Geng doi:10.1007/s004260100059 Psychological Research, Vol. 65, No. 4. (14 November 2001), pp. 235-241. 2008-01-18T21:31:08-00:00 2001 Psychological Research 65 4 235 241 embodiment recommendation