In three well-designed experiments, Schneider et al.(2014) demonstrate that the importance ascribed to the content influences weight perception of a USB or of a data-storage device.I will briefly discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the recent debate on“penetrability” of perception and then more generally for embodied and grounded views of cognition; finally I will argue that it is important to study weight.
Commentary: Weighty data: Importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices / Borghi, A. M.. - In: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1664-1078. - 7:MAY(2016), p. 709. [10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00709]
Commentary: Weighty data: Importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices
Borghi A. M.
Primo
2016
Abstract
In three well-designed experiments, Schneider et al.(2014) demonstrate that the importance ascribed to the content influences weight perception of a USB or of a data-storage device.I will briefly discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the recent debate on“penetrability” of perception and then more generally for embodied and grounded views of cognition; finally I will argue that it is important to study weight.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
