Speeding up comprehension with grasping actions
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 11:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Hearing or seeing a word doesn’t mean that it is immediately understood. The brain must first recognize the letters as such, put them together, and “look up” what the word means in its mental lexicon. In an experiment, cognitive psychologists have shown how word comprehension can be sped up – namely by having study participants grasp objects while reading at the same time.