{"pk":25888,"title":"Conceptual Combination Modulated by Action using Tangible Computers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We studied the role of action in a conceptual combination task by varying whether word stimuli could be physically\ngrasped and arranged (words displayed individually on tangible cubes) or only touched and pointed to (words printed on a poster\npaper). Middle-school aged participants combined nouns from different taxonomic categories then described creative meanings.\nDescriptions contained more between-category relations (e.g., “shaped like” and “looks like” analogies) in the poster condition\nthan when combining words using cubes. Conversely, participants produced more within-category descriptions (e.g., taxonomic\ndeclarations “it’s a X”, and metaphorically blended categories) when interacting with cubes than with a poster. These results\nsuggest embodied explanations, and are consist with developmental studies that find categorization is differentially organized\nby shape and taxonomy. We propose that hardcopy and traditional keyboard-display computers which afford pointing and\ntouching may engage categorization differently than tangible computers based on physical objects which afford grasping and\narranging.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck2k6w2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Clausner","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"Mary","middle_name":"Lou","last_name":"Maher","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of North Carolina","department":""},{"first_name":"Berto","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gonzales","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of North Carolina","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25888/galley/15512/download/"}]}