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How Handedness Shapes Language and Thought: First tests of the body-specificity hypothesis| old_uid | 7014 |
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| title | How Handedness Shapes Language and Thought: First tests of the body-specificity hypothesis |
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| start_date | 2009/05/25 |
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| schedule | 10h30-11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| details | suite à 14h30 |
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| summary | Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009), people who interact with their physical environments in systematically different ways should form correspondin-gly different mental representations. In this talk, I will
re-view studies showing that right -and left-handers, who per-form actions differently, use correspondingly different areas of the brain for imagining actions and representing action verb meanings. Further studies show that
beyond influen-cing how people understand the concrete domain of action, the way we use our hands also shapes the way we repre-sent ideas with positive and negative emotional valence like honesty, intelligence, and goodness. Even our most abs-tract ideas depend, in part, on the particulars of our bodies. |
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| responsibles | Bressé, Cohen, Kergoat |
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