http://mindhacks.com/2008/01/16/mind-body-and-goal-the-embodied-cognition-revolution/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/01/16/mind-body-and-goal-the-embodied-cognition-revolution/#comment-6907 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:33:20 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/mind-body-and-goal-the-embodied-cognition-revolution/#comment-6907 A study published in August by Alejandro Lleras and Laura Thomas, two psychologists at the University of Illinois, built on those results by inducing the eye movements Spivey had discovered. Lleras and Thomas found that doing so greatly improved the rate at which people solved the problem – even though most never figured out that the eye movements had anything to do with it.
“The subjects actually think that the eye-tracking task is very distracting,” Lleras says. “They think we’re doing this to keep them from solving the problem.”
If you’re interested in this research I actually blogged about it here: http://scienceblogs.com/omnibrain/2007/09/how_moving_your_eyes_can_help.php

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