Laura J Speed
Biographic Data
| ID | 4601656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura J Speed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura J |
| FAMILY NAME | Speed |
| SIGNATURE | SPEED L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3147-3615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Haptic Compensation in Blind People’s Conceptual Representations
Vision is typically dominant in our perception of the world. Such asymmetry is also observed in conceptual representations. This could be driven by perceptual experience or learned from other input, such as language. In this study we tested the role of direct perceptual experience in conceptual representation by investigating the sensory underpinnings of word meanings in blind and sighted individuals. Seventeen early-blind and 17 matched sighted …
Gestural and Verbal Evidence of Conceptual Representation Differences in Blind and Sighted Individuals
This preregistered study examined whether visual experience influences conceptual representations by examining both gestural expression and feature listing. Gestures—mostly driven by analog mappings of visuospatial and motoric experiences onto the body—offer a unique window into conceptual representations and provide complementary information not offered by language‐based features, which have been the focus of previous work. Thirty congenitally o…
The role of visual imagery in story reading
Aphantasia is a condition in which people are unable to experience visual imagery. Since visual imagery is thought to be key to language processing, we hypothesized the experience of a story would differ between individuals with aphantasia and controls. Forty-seven individuals with aphantasia were compared to fifty-one matched controls on their experience of reading a short story and their general reading habits. Aphantasics were less likely to b…
Children’s multisensory experiences in museums
This case study was designed to engage children’s sense of smell through a story-related museum exhibition. Children’s responses to the exhibition, with particular attention to their olfactory perceptions of the odors at the exhibition, were solicited through researcher-child interviews and children’s drawings. Responses from 28 children (girls N = 14, boys N = 14) aged between 4.5–8 years were analyzed after they visited the exhibition using the…
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words
Whether language is grounded in action and perception has been a key question in cognitive science, yet little attention has been given to the sense of smell. We directly test whether smell is necessary for comprehension of odor language, by comparing language processing in a group of participants with no sense of smell (anosmics) to a group of control participants. We found no evidence for a difference in online comprehension of odor and taste l…
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Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words
Whether language is grounded in action and perception has been a key question in cognitive science, yet little attention has been given to the sense of smell. We directly test whether smell is necessary for comprehension of odor language, by comparing language processing in a group of participants with no sense of smell (anosmics) to a group of control participants. We found no evidence for a difference in online comprehension of odor and taste l…
Children’s multisensory experiences in museums
This case study was designed to engage children’s sense of smell through a story-related museum exhibition. Children’s responses to the exhibition, with particular attention to their olfactory perceptions of the odors at the exhibition, were solicited through researcher-child interviews and children’s drawings. Responses from 28 children (girls N = 14, boys N = 14) aged between 4.5–8 years were analyzed after they visited the exhibition using the…
The role of visual imagery in story reading
Aphantasia is a condition in which people are unable to experience visual imagery. Since visual imagery is thought to be key to language processing, we hypothesized the experience of a story would differ between individuals with aphantasia and controls. Forty-seven individuals with aphantasia were compared to fifty-one matched controls on their experience of reading a short story and their general reading habits. Aphantasics were less likely to b…
Haptic Compensation in Blind People’s Conceptual Representations
Vision is typically dominant in our perception of the world. Such asymmetry is also observed in conceptual representations. This could be driven by perceptual experience or learned from other input, such as language. In this study we tested the role of direct perceptual experience in conceptual representation by investigating the sensory underpinnings of word meanings in blind and sighted individuals. Seventeen early-blind and 17 matched sighted …
Gestural and Verbal Evidence of Conceptual Representation Differences in Blind and Sighted Individuals
This preregistered study examined whether visual experience influences conceptual representations by examining both gestural expression and feature listing. Gestures—mostly driven by analog mappings of visuospatial and motoric experiences onto the body—offer a unique window into conceptual representations and provide complementary information not offered by language‐based features, which have been the focus of previous work. Thirty congenitally o…
Multisensory perception and integration (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Neuroscience (2 works) · Olfaction (2 works)