I 5683 You: Dialing Phone Numbers on Cell Phones Activates Key-Concordant Concepts

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 355 - 360
• Main Author: Topolinski, Sascha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2011; Sage Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Activity levels. Psychomotricity; Association Learning; Biological and medical sciences; Cell Phone; Cell phones; Cellular telephones; Cognition; Cognitive psychology; Companies; Computer keyboards; Concept Formation; Embodiment; Emotions; Experimentation; Experiments; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Keyboarding; Male; Meaning; Memory; Mental Recall; Mobile phones; Morticians; Motor ability; Perceptual motor coordination; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor activities; Psychomotor Performance; Reading; Semantics; Sensory perception; Sequences; Serial Learning; Simulation; Social dating; Social psychology; Studies; Telephone; Text messages; Verbal Learning; Visual task performance; Words; Writing; motor processes; embodiment; perceptual motor coordination; semantic memory; word recognition; implicit memory; Human; Implicit memory; Mobile phone; Semantic memory; Word; Cognition; Embodiment; Motor control; Sensorimotor coordination; Language; Number; Motricity; Recognition

When people perform actions, effects associated with the actions are activated mentally, even if those effects are not apparent. This study tested whether sequences of simulations of virtual action effects can be integrated into a meaning of their own. Cell phones were used to test this hypothesis b...