Sources of flexibility in human cognition: dual-task studies of space and language.

By Linda Hermer-Vazquez, Elizabeth S. Spelke, A. Katsnelson. 1999

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, methodology): “Employing similar techniques, Hermer-Vazquez et al. (1999) showed that verbal shadowing interfered with performance on a task requiring integration of geometric and color information, suggesting a role for inner speech in the labeling and binding of information across modalities.”
Reorientation in a rhombic environment: No evidence for an encapsulated geometric module (2005, background): “Based on the finding of Hermer-Vazquez et al. (1999, 2001) that flexible reorientation using landmark and geometric information critically depends on the production of these terms, we expected that correct searches in the landmark condition would positively correlate with successful production but…”
The cognitive functions of language (2002, background): “The most important of these is Hermer-Vazquez et al. (1999), which provides strong evidence that the integration of geometric properties with other sorts of information (color, smell, patterning, etc.) is dependent upon natural language.”
Core knowledge. (2007, background): “assumptions, Izard (2006) has shown that this ‘scalar variability’ produces a ratio limit to the discriminability of sets with different cardinal values.”
Is problem solving dependent on language? (2005, background): “We wanted to further understand the mechanisms involved in this phenomenon by studying WCST performance in normal participants under conditions of articulatory suppression (similar to Hermer-Vazquez et al., 1999 ).”
Extracommunicative functions of language: Verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments (2009, methodology): “assessed by comparing the speed and accuracy in a visual search task (as in Hermer-Vazquez, Spelke, & Katsnelson, 1999 ).”
eview hat is that little voice inside my head ? Inner speech henomenology , its role in cognitive performance , and ts relation to self-monitoring (2014, background): “[108] found that verbal shadowing but not non-verbal rhythmic shadowing) prevented participants rom performing a spatial-localisation task.”