In a prescient paper Karl Lashley (1951) rejected reflex chaining accounts of the sequencing
of behavior and argued instead for a more cognitive account in which behavioral sequences …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

This paper presents a comparative conceptual review of speech and limb motor control.
Speech is essentially cognitive in nature and constrained by the rules of language, while …

We explored the pre-linguistic foundations of spatial language by testing how 12‐month-old
infants represent sources and goals in Motion events (eg, a duck moving out of a bowl and …

Few studies have explored the development of response selection processes in children in
the case of object manipulation. In the current research, we studied the end-state comfort …

We examined the effect of rate on finger kinematics in goal-directed actions of pianists. In
addition, we evaluated whether movement kinematics can be treated as an indicator of …

Pictures of handled objects such as a beer mug or frying pan are shown to prime speeded
reach and grasp actions that are compatible with the object. To determine whether the …

Motor planning has generally been studied in situations where participants carry out
physical actions without a particular purpose. Yet in everyday life physical actions are …

We investigated the development of the end-state comfort effect in young children. Fifty-one
children from three age-groups (3, 4, and 5 years old) participated in the study. They …