Marcel Kinsbourne
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcel Kinsbourne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinsbourne |
| SIGNATURE | KINSBOURNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Influence of Visuospatial and Verbal Cognitive Styles on Empathy and Willingness to Help
We examined the relationship between cognitive style, empathy, and willingness to help. In Study 1 (N = 186), we measured preference for visuospatial or verbal cognitive style using the ZenQ ( Zenhausern, 1978 ), and empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index ( Davis, 1983 ). In Study 2 (N = 76), we experimentally elicited verbal or visual cognitive processing via priming and measured empathy in response to a vignette about a woman injured …
Does Left Brain Lateralization of Speech Arise from Right-Biased Orienting to Salient Percepts
This discussion relates to the cognitive context of early speech and its brain basis. It reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right biased) orienting to perceived salience or change
Embodied Anticipation: A Neurodevelopmental Interpretation
This article proposes an approach to the brain's role in communication that treats the brain as the vehicle of a multi-scale embodiment of anticipation. Instead of conceptualizing anticipation as something a brain is able to do when circumstances seem to require it, this study proposes that anticipation is continuous and ongoing because to anticipate is an inherent design characteristic of the brain. Correspondingly, there is no anticipation modu…
Left hemisphere specialization for response to positive emotional expressions: A divided output methodology
An extensive literature credits the right hemisphere with dominance for processing emotion. Conflicting literature finds left hemisphere dominance for positive emotions. This conflict may be resolved by attending to processing stage. A divided output (bimanual) reaction time paradigm in which response hand was varied for emotion (angry; happy) in Experiments 1 and 2 and for gender (male; female) in Experiment 3 focused on response to emotion rath…
Gestures as embodied cognition: A neurodevelopmental interpretation
Fundamental dimensions of behavior include approach, withdrawal, domination, submission, indicating and dearousing maneuvers. Generically, approach involves flexion at many joints, withdrawal involves extension. Dominating involves moving upwards, submitting involves moving downwards. Indicating involves pointing. Repetitive meaningless motions control anxiety. These movement patterns are found in behaviorally simple animals, and in young infants…
Progress in the measurement of laterality and implications for dyslexia research
The Intralaminar Thalmic Nuclei: Subjectivity Pumps or Attention-Action Coordinators
Time and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain
We compare the way two models of consciousness treat subjective timing. According to the standard “Cartesian Theater” model, there is a place in the brain where “it all comes together,” and the discriminations in all modalities are somehow put into registration and “presented” for subjective judgment. The timing of the events in this theater determines subjective order. According to the alternative “Multiple Drafts” model, discriminations are dis…
Response Process in Judgmental Contrast
College students ranked opposite-sex and same-sex celebrities on their attractiveness as potential partners for an evening (dateability) in Experiment 1 (n = 130). The opposite-sex rankings were used to establish three stimulus contexts varying in average dateability for each sex. Subjects then gave two types of magnitude estimations (line drawings and dollars) on the dateability of common stimulus names in the three contexts (Experiment 2, n = 1…
Possible origin of speech in selective orienting
Pointing and speaking enrich the infant's repertoire of communicative action. However, pointing emerges as a component of action-for-se lf: selective orienting to salient (usually, moving or changing) things. Pointing with vocalization, followed by pointing with naming, indexes the child's shifting focus of attention. Evidence that they emerge for the purpose of intentional communication is
Lateral input may shift activation balance in the integrated brain
Bouma, H., & Legein, C. Dyslexia a specific receding deficit? An analysis of response latencies for letters and words in dyslectics and in average readers. Neuropsychologia, 1980, 18, 285-298. Damasio, A. The frontal lobes. In K. Heilman & E. Valenstein (Eds.), Clinical neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Heilman, K., & Van Den Abel, T. Right hemispheric dominance for mediating cerebral activation. Neuropsychologia, 1979, 77…
Lateral input may shift activation balance in the integrated brain
Laterality and dyslexia: A critical view
Hemispheric specialization and the growth of human understanding
Hemispheric specialization and the growth of human understanding
The Locus of Bimanual Skill Transfer
Subjects (N = 128) practiced a typing task with one hand while the other hand either grasped the table leg (experimental condition) or was free (control condition). Subsequently, the other hand showed savings in training in the control but not in the experimental condition. The abolition of transfer of training by engaging the fingers of the test hand in unrelated activity during training suggests that transfer is mediated by irradiation of the e…
How young children represent sentences: Evidence from the superiority of noun recall from action as compared to stative sequences
Preschool children's sentence comprehension: Strategies with respect to word order
Fifty-two children aged 2; 5 to 6; 3 acted out the meaning of reversible passive and inverted cleft sentences. The younger children overgeneralized two strategies that led to passive sentence reversal. In order of frequency, they are: (1)‘agent + action’ (the noun preceding the verb being interpreted as agent even when it is the second noun), and (2) ‘order-of-mention’ (the first noun being treated as agent). Whereas younger children tended to us…
Human Figure Representation by Blind Children
The present study examined the extent to which visual experience contributes to children's ability to represent the human figure. Nine congenitally blind children aged 7:11 to 13:7 and nine sighted children aged 7:9 to 13:6 modeled the human figure with plasticene. The controls performed more accurately than the blind children with respect to presence and placement of body parts and significantly (p < .01) surpassed the latter with respect to pro…
Asymmetries of selective listening and attention switching in children
The ontogeny of right cerebral lateralization of spatial mental set
Ontogeny of cerebral dominance: Evidence from time-sharing asymmetry in children
Selective listening asymmetry in preschool children
Is the Word Frequency Effect on Recognition Threshold a Function of Transitional Probability
Frequently used 5- and 6-letter words incorporate letter sequences of higher digram and trigram frequency than rare words. This could account for some or all of the frequency of usage effect on word recognition threshold
Critical Notice: The Analysis of Higher Nervous Activity in Man
Higher Cortical Functions in Man . By A. R. L uria Human Brain and Psychological Processes . By A. R. L uria
Selective listening asymmetry in preschool children
Ontogeny of cerebral dominance: Evidence from time-sharing asymmetry in children
Embodied Anticipation: A Neurodevelopmental Interpretation
This article proposes an approach to the brain's role in communication that treats the brain as the vehicle of a multi-scale embodiment of anticipation. Instead of conceptualizing anticipation as something a brain is able to do when circumstances seem to require it, this study proposes that anticipation is continuous and ongoing because to anticipate is an inherent design characteristic of the brain. Correspondingly, there is no anticipation modu…
Gestures as embodied cognition: A neurodevelopmental interpretation
Fundamental dimensions of behavior include approach, withdrawal, domination, submission, indicating and dearousing maneuvers. Generically, approach involves flexion at many joints, withdrawal involves extension. Dominating involves moving upwards, submitting involves moving downwards. Indicating involves pointing. Repetitive meaningless motions control anxiety. These movement patterns are found in behaviorally simple animals, and in young infants…
Asymmetries of selective listening and attention switching in children
Developmental Factors in Reading and Writing Backwardness
Two groups of patients referred on account of backwardness in reading or writing or both were studied. These were selected on the basis of a discrepancy of more than 20 points between 'verbal' and 'performance' I.Q.'s on the W.I.S.C. or W.A.I.S., the verbal I.Q. being the lower in group 1 (6 cases) and the performance I.Q. the lower in group 2 (7 cases). Other clinical evidences of language disorder were found in group 1, but were almost complete…
Possible origin of speech in selective orienting
Pointing and speaking enrich the infant's repertoire of communicative action. However, pointing emerges as a component of action-for-se lf: selective orienting to salient (usually, moving or changing) things. Pointing with vocalization, followed by pointing with naming, indexes the child's shifting focus of attention. Evidence that they emerge for the purpose of intentional communication is
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Influence of Visuospatial and Verbal Cognitive Styles on Empathy and Willingness to Help
We examined the relationship between cognitive style, empathy, and willingness to help. In Study 1 (N = 186), we measured preference for visuospatial or verbal cognitive style using the ZenQ ( Zenhausern, 1978 ), and empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index ( Davis, 1983 ). In Study 2 (N = 76), we experimentally elicited verbal or visual cognitive processing via priming and measured empathy in response to a vignette about a woman injured …
Human Figure Representation by Blind Children
The present study examined the extent to which visual experience contributes to children's ability to represent the human figure. Nine congenitally blind children aged 7:11 to 13:7 and nine sighted children aged 7:9 to 13:6 modeled the human figure with plasticene. The controls performed more accurately than the blind children with respect to presence and placement of body parts and significantly (p < .01) surpassed the latter with respect to pro…
The ontogeny of right cerebral lateralization of spatial mental set
Developmental Factors in Reading and Writing Backwardness
Two groups of patients referred on account of backwardness in reading or writing or both were studied. These were selected on the basis of a discrepancy of more than 20 points between 'verbal' and 'performance' I.Q.'s on the W.I.S.C. or W.A.I.S., the verbal I.Q. being the lower in group 1 (6 cases) and the performance I.Q. the lower in group 2 (7 cases). Other clinical evidences of language disorder were found in group 1, but were almost complete…
Uncertainty and Transitional Probability in the Span of Apprehension
Span of apprehension was measured for stimulus ensembles of various sizes, using letters, digits and an arbitrarily selected set of simple lines. Span was significantly decreased when letters and digits were presented as mixed sequences, in proportion to the number of letter‐digit juxtapositions. Span also varied with the serial position at which a single juxtaposition occurred, being greatest where this was near the mid‐point. These results were…
Critical Notice: The Analysis of Higher Nervous Activity in Man
Higher Cortical Functions in Man . By A. R. L uria Human Brain and Psychological Processes . By A. R. L uria
Is the Word Frequency Effect on Recognition Threshold a Function of Transitional Probability
Frequently used 5- and 6-letter words incorporate letter sequences of higher digram and trigram frequency than rare words. This could account for some or all of the frequency of usage effect on word recognition threshold
Selective listening asymmetry in preschool children
Ontogeny of cerebral dominance: Evidence from time-sharing asymmetry in children
The ontogeny of right cerebral lateralization of spatial mental set
Preschool children's sentence comprehension: Strategies with respect to word order
Fifty-two children aged 2; 5 to 6; 3 acted out the meaning of reversible passive and inverted cleft sentences. The younger children overgeneralized two strategies that led to passive sentence reversal. In order of frequency, they are: (1)‘agent + action’ (the noun preceding the verb being interpreted as agent even when it is the second noun), and (2) ‘order-of-mention’ (the first noun being treated as agent). Whereas younger children tended to us…
Human Figure Representation by Blind Children
The present study examined the extent to which visual experience contributes to children's ability to represent the human figure. Nine congenitally blind children aged 7:11 to 13:7 and nine sighted children aged 7:9 to 13:6 modeled the human figure with plasticene. The controls performed more accurately than the blind children with respect to presence and placement of body parts and significantly (p < .01) surpassed the latter with respect to pro…
Asymmetries of selective listening and attention switching in children
How young children represent sentences: Evidence from the superiority of noun recall from action as compared to stative sequences
Laterality and dyslexia: A critical view
Hemispheric specialization and the growth of human understanding
Hemispheric specialization and the growth of human understanding
The Locus of Bimanual Skill Transfer
Subjects (N = 128) practiced a typing task with one hand while the other hand either grasped the table leg (experimental condition) or was free (control condition). Subsequently, the other hand showed savings in training in the control but not in the experimental condition. The abolition of transfer of training by engaging the fingers of the test hand in unrelated activity during training suggests that transfer is mediated by irradiation of the e…
Lateral input may shift activation balance in the integrated brain
Bouma, H., & Legein, C. Dyslexia a specific receding deficit? An analysis of response latencies for letters and words in dyslectics and in average readers. Neuropsychologia, 1980, 18, 285-298. Damasio, A. The frontal lobes. In K. Heilman & E. Valenstein (Eds.), Clinical neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Heilman, K., & Van Den Abel, T. Right hemispheric dominance for mediating cerebral activation. Neuropsychologia, 1979, 77…
Lateral input may shift activation balance in the integrated brain
Response Process in Judgmental Contrast
College students ranked opposite-sex and same-sex celebrities on their attractiveness as potential partners for an evening (dateability) in Experiment 1 (n = 130). The opposite-sex rankings were used to establish three stimulus contexts varying in average dateability for each sex. Subjects then gave two types of magnitude estimations (line drawings and dollars) on the dateability of common stimulus names in the three contexts (Experiment 2, n = 1…
Possible origin of speech in selective orienting
Pointing and speaking enrich the infant's repertoire of communicative action. However, pointing emerges as a component of action-for-se lf: selective orienting to salient (usually, moving or changing) things. Pointing with vocalization, followed by pointing with naming, indexes the child's shifting focus of attention. Evidence that they emerge for the purpose of intentional communication is
Time and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain
We compare the way two models of consciousness treat subjective timing. According to the standard “Cartesian Theater” model, there is a place in the brain where “it all comes together,” and the discriminations in all modalities are somehow put into registration and “presented” for subjective judgment. The timing of the events in this theater determines subjective order. According to the alternative “Multiple Drafts” model, discriminations are dis…
Progress in the measurement of laterality and implications for dyslexia research
The Intralaminar Thalmic Nuclei: Subjectivity Pumps or Attention-Action Coordinators
Left hemisphere specialization for response to positive emotional expressions: A divided output methodology
An extensive literature credits the right hemisphere with dominance for processing emotion. Conflicting literature finds left hemisphere dominance for positive emotions. This conflict may be resolved by attending to processing stage. A divided output (bimanual) reaction time paradigm in which response hand was varied for emotion (angry; happy) in Experiments 1 and 2 and for gender (male; female) in Experiment 3 focused on response to emotion rath…
Gestures as embodied cognition: A neurodevelopmental interpretation
Fundamental dimensions of behavior include approach, withdrawal, domination, submission, indicating and dearousing maneuvers. Generically, approach involves flexion at many joints, withdrawal involves extension. Dominating involves moving upwards, submitting involves moving downwards. Indicating involves pointing. Repetitive meaningless motions control anxiety. These movement patterns are found in behaviorally simple animals, and in young infants…
Does Left Brain Lateralization of Speech Arise from Right-Biased Orienting to Salient Percepts
This discussion relates to the cognitive context of early speech and its brain basis. It reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right biased) orienting to perceived salience or change
Psychology (27 works) · Cognitive psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Cognition (12 works) · Neuroscience (12 works) · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Communication (6 works)