کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
9721978 1473618 2005 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Why your “head is in the clouds” during thinking: The relationship between cognition and upper space
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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Why your “head is in the clouds” during thinking: The relationship between cognition and upper space
چکیده انگلیسی
Higher-order cognition in humans has not generally been viewed as closely entwined with the brain mechanisms mediating more basic perceptual-motor interactions in 3-D space. However, recent findings suggest that perceptual and oculomotor mechanisms that are biased toward the upper field (which disproportionately represents radially distant space) are activated during complex mental operations, ranging from semantic processing to mental arithmetic and memory search. The particularly close affinity with upward conjugate eye deviations--further confirmed in a study of 24 schoolchildren who responded to various mental questions and demands--suggests that active, abstract thinking in humans may have expropriated the focal-extrapersonal brain systems involved in saccadic exploration of the distant environment in other primates.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Acta Psychologica - Volume 118, Issues 1–2, January–February 2005, Pages 7-24
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