(March 19, 2015) An
Indiana University cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that
posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge.
The study, conducted by Linda Smith, a professor in the IU
Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences, in collaboration with a roboticist from England and a developmental
psychologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a new approach to
studying the way "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of
physical objects, are tied to the position of the body.