Cultural modulations of space–time compatibility effects

A Vallesi, Y Weisblatt, C Semenza, S Shaki - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2014 - Springer
The representation of elapsing time may require spatial attention. In certain circumstances,
this spatial representation develops from left to right. This is suggested by a performance …

[BOEK][B] Comprehension of graphics

W Schnotz, RW Kulhavy - 1994 - books.google.com
Graphic displays such as charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps play in important role today in
the design and presentation of instructional materials education. There is also a strong need …

Cross-cultural representations of musical shape

G Athanasopoulos, N Moran - Empirical Musicology Review, 2013 - ojs.library.osu.edu
In cross-cultural research involving performers from distinct cultural backgrounds (UK, Japan,
Papua New Guinea), we examined 75 musicians’ associations between musical sound …

Contributions of perceptual and cognitive processes to the comprehension of graphics

W Winn - Advances in psychology, 1994 - Elsevier
This chapter describes perceptual and cognitive processes that are involved in the
organization, interpretation and comprehension of graphics. The notational symbol system of …

[PDF][PDF] Is there a moon illusion in space?

I Schmidt - Aerospace medicine, 1964 - spacemedicineassociation.org
In case our perception would be in agreement with the retinal image of the moon, the horizon
moon should look smaller than that overhead because the latter is approximately 6400 km …

How time modulates spatial responses

A Vallesi, AR McIntosh, DT Stuss - Cortex, 2011 - Elsevier
Behavioural evidence suggests a left-to-right directionality in the representation of elapsing
time. We tested whether this representation produces a spatial attentional shift that activates …

An effect of spatial–temporal association of response codes: Understanding the cognitive representations of time

A Vallesi, MA Binns, T Shallice - Cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
The present study addresses the question of how such an abstract concept as time is
represented by our cognitive system. Specifically, the aim was to assess whether temporal …

[PDF][PDF] How can spatial arrangement in tables improve readers' cognitive processing?

A Pellegrin, M Bétrancourt - Proceedings of the AAAI 2000 Spring …, 2000 - cdn.aaai.org
The research reported in this paper deals with the cognitive theories of graphical representations.
Two experiments were carried out to investigate the production and comprehension of …

Influence of literacy on representation of time in musical stimuli: An exploratory cross-cultural study in the UK, Japan, and Papua New Guinea

G Athanasopoulos, SL Tan, N Moran - Psychology of Music, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has shown that literacy influences some dimensions of the visual (or
graphic) representation of temporal events, and that concepts of time vary across cultures. The …

An account of how readers search for information in diagrams

W Winn - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1993 - Elsevier
Research has provided less information about how readers search for information in diagrams
than it has about searching in text. For this reason, Guthrie′s (1988) model of search in …