The mental imagination of (social) actions has been shown to follow a left-to-right trajectory, with the thematic agent associated left position (Spatial Agency Bias, Suitner & Maass in Advances Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 2016, p. 245–301). For example, individuals asked choose picture that visualizes sentence “Tom kicks George” tend an image where agent, Tom, is positioned on left-han...

The current study was conducted for investigating the effect of Metacognitive skills on pupil teachers’ written assignment performance. executed while using Quasi-Experimental nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design. two sections B.Ed (Honors) Semester-I (each consisting 30 students) were selected conveniently this study. Before intervention, both groups have been pretested and ther...

The gold standard method for measuring cerebral lateralization, the Wada technique, is too invasive for routine research use. Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a viable alternative but it is costly and affected by muscle artefact when activation tasks involve speech. Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (fTCD) can be used to assess cerebral lateralization by comparing blood fl...

The aim of the current study was to examine whether depth of encoding influences attentional capture by recently attended objects. In Experiment 1, participants first had to judge whether a word referred to a living or a nonliving thing (deep encoding condition) or whether the word was written in lower- or uppercase (shallow encoding condition), and they then had to identify a digit displayed m...