Jacob B. Feiler

University of Alabama | UA · Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

In the contexts of language learning and music processing, hand gestures conveying acoustic information visually influence perception of speech and non-speech sounds (Connell et al., 2013; Morett & Chang, 2015). Currently, it is unclear whether this effect is due to these gestures' use of the human body to highlight relevant features of language (e...

Tonal languages, like Mandarin, are characterized by having words that differ in lexical tone. These tones, which are absent in English, make Mandarin and other tonal languages difficult for atonal language speakers (e.g., native English speakers) to learn. Previous research has indicated that pitch gesture, an embodied motion of the pitch accent o...

An on-going challenge for educational neuroscience is in defining the field, particularly in relation to the broader fields of education, psychology and neuroscience. The field is rapidly growing; the number of papers published under search terms “neuroscience and education” has skyrocketed in recent decades with various viewpoints debated. As inte...

Severe worry is a common psychiatric phenomenon that increases in prevalence during adolescence and affects multiple aspects of emotion and cognition, including executive function. Inhibition, one domain of executive function, is the ability to prevent or terminate particular thoughts or actions in the pursuit of goals and is thought to be mediated...