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Embodiment

Everything on this site about embodiment — each one naming the study behind it.

Your brain treats numbers as physical space.
The SNARC effect reveals that humans associate smaller numbers with the left side of space and larger numbers with the…
Your brain can treat a fake hand as real.
In the rubber hand illusion, touch on a hidden hand causes a sensation in a visible fake hand.…
Your brain treats abstract ideas as physical weight.
Participants holding a heavy clipboard rated job applicants as having more 'serious' and 'significant' personalities.…