title: Keep it cool: temperature priming effect on cognitive control.
abstract: The effect of physical temperature on cognition and behavior has been the focus of extensive research in recent years, demonstrating that embodied concepts are grounded in, and shaped by, sensorimotor physical experiences. Nevertheless, less is known about how experienced and perceived temperatures affect cognitive control, one of humans core executive functions. In the present work, we primed participants with cool versus warm temperature using a between participants manipulation of physical touch experience (Experiment 1), and a within participants manipulation of seeing landscape views associated with cool vs. warm temperatures (Experiment 2). In both experiments, cool compared to warm temperatures lead to improved performance on an anti-saccade task, an established cognitive control measure. Implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. halali@stanford.edu.|Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel. halali@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Eliran
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Halali
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.|Zlotowski Center of Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Nachshon
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Meiran
authors.affiliation: Zlotowski Center of Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. shalevid@bgu.ac.il.|Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. shalevid@bgu.ac.il.
authors.forename: Idit
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shalev
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005260:Female; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult