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    "pk": 26246,
    "title": "Ambiguity and Representational Stability:\nWhat is the role of embodied experiences?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Embodied cognition is sometimes presented as an alternative\nto computational approaches, the argument being that\ncognition is strongly influenced by an agent's body movement.\nHowever, the exact nature of this influence is still uncertain. In\nthe current paper, we add to the conversation by analyzing\nadults’ predictions in a high-ambiguity task: Adults had to\ndecide which of two objects would sink faster (or slower) in\nwater. Ambiguity was achieved by pitting object volume and\nobject mass against buoyancy: The winning object of a pair was\nsometimes the bigger and heavier one, and sometimes it was\nthe smaller and lighter one. The crucial manipulation was\nwhether the stimuli were real-life objects or 2D pictures. All\nparticipants were presented with pictures of the objects during\na training phase (when they received feedback on their\npredictions). Real-life objects were either present during the\nphase prior to the training (jars-first condition), or during the\nphase after the training (jars-last condition). Findings showed\na clear influence of hands-on experiences: When allowed to\nhold the objects, adults were more likely to demonstrate a\nsimplistic focus on object heaviness. These results call for a\nmore nuanced understanding of the effect of embodied\nexperiences on the stability of representations. While\nembodiment sometimes can help distinguish relevant from\nirrelevant information, we show that it can also destabilize\nrepresentations acquired through visual information.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "action; knowledge representation; predictions;\nambiguity; misconceptions; hands-on explorations"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9250421m",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ramón",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Castillo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Talca",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Talia",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Waltzer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Cruz",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Heidi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kloos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Cincinnati",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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}