Motor imagery and engagement favour spatial reasoning.
Based on the assumption that spatial reasoning relies on the construction of mental models of the states of affairs described in the premises, and on evidence that sensory-motor imagery can enhance cognitive abilities, we hypothesised that imagining moving the objects mentioned in the premises to th...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 51; no. 5; pp. 1103 - 1115 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164432695&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 164432695 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2023 vid: 51 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 164432695 10.3758/s13421-022-01383-2 ppf: 1103 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 655KB tig: atl: Motor imagery and engagement favour spatial reasoning. aug: au: Ianì, Francesco Schaeken, Walter Ras, Ivan Nabil Bucciarelli, Monica affil: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli studi di Torino, Via Verdi, 10, 10123, Turin, Italy Centro di Logica, Linguaggio, e Cognizione, Università degli studi di Torino, Turin, Italy Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium su: Memory Psychology Imagination Motor ability Conceptual models Reaction time Space perception sug: subj: Memory Psychology Imagination Motor ability Conceptual models Reaction time Space perception keyword: Engagement Mental models Motor imagery Spatial reasoning Engagement Mental models Motor imagery Spatial reasoning ab: Based on the assumption that spatial reasoning relies on the construction of mental models of the states of affairs described in the premises, and on evidence that sensory-motor imagery can enhance cognitive abilities, we hypothesised that imagining moving the objects mentioned in the premises to the specific spatial locations should favour spatial reasoning. The results of Experiment 1 confirmed the prediction: when participants imagined moving the objects mentioned in the premises (dynamic-engagement condition), they drew accurate inferences faster compared with participants who merely read the premises (static-non-engagement condition). Experiment 2 was in part a replication of Experiment 1 but included two additional experimental conditions to control for possible effects of self-engagement in reasoning: in one condition, participants imagined that someone else was moving the objects (dynamic-non-engagement condition), and in the other condition, participants imagined that they were observing the objects (static-engagement condition). The results revealed an interaction between motor imagery and engagement in decreasing response times to spatial problems. We discuss the practical implications of the current results. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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