The singers Feist and Camille wrote songs about X, while actresses Jeanne Moreau and Miranda Richardson performed the letter and Laurie Anderson turned it into a multimedia performance.
Then they were asked to do one of three things for 30 minutes -- sit quietly, run on a treadmill or lift weights -- before performing the letter test again.
In experiment 2 we examined how imagery's ability to prime rivalry was influenced by different levels of background luminance during the storage period in which subjects performed the letter detection task.
As in Experiment 1, participants performed the letter identification task with their hands either moving or still.
This outcome indicates that moving the hands did not interfere with concurrently performing the letter identification task, suggesting independent, or at least interference-free, control (for a similar demonstration with keypress responses performed concurrently with moving the hands, see Adam & Moresi, 2007).
Mr. Sullivan was attracted to him for an entirely different reason: He admired the deft, cinematic way that Mr. Belton, in a documentary about Vincent van Gogh, had used actors to perform the artist's letters as on-screen soliloquies.
Rhythmic TMS was applied while participants performed the Navon letter discrimination task at the currently task-relevant level.
In the dynamic condition, participants continuously changed their posture by moving their hands toward and away from the stimulus display in a self-paced, cyclical manner, while concurrently performing the visual letter identification task.
This was the age of the food processor, and these new office machines promised to perform the same miracle with letters that the Cuisinart achieved with carrots.
"They are using information about letters and the relation between letters to perform the task without any kind of linguistic training," said Jonathan Grainger, a psychologist at the French Center for National Research and at Aix-Marseille University in France who was the study's first author.
