1. The role of gesture as simulated action in reinterpretation of mental imagery
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Kevin Kamermans, Luisa Fassi, Autumn B. Hostetter, Wim Pouw, Asimina Aslanidou, Fred Paas, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, and Educational and Developmental Psychology
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Adult ,Male ,PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cognitive Psychology|Problem Solving ,Adolescent ,InformationSystems_INFORMATIONINTERFACESANDPRESENTATION(e.g.,HCI) ,Movement ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,050105 experimental psychology ,Task (project management) ,Random Allocation ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Learning ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Reinterpretation ,Psycholinguistics ,Gestures ,05 social sciences ,General Medicine ,PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cognitive Psychology|Imagery ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Cognitive Psychology ,PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Action (philosophy) ,Touch ,Imagination ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences ,PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Cognitive Psychology ,Female ,Haptic perception ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology ,Gesture ,Mental image - Abstract
Item does not contain fulltext In two experiments, we examined the role of gesture in reinterpreting a mental image. In Experiment 1, we found that participants gestured more about a figure they had learned through manual exploration than about a figure they had learned through vision. This supports claims that gestures emerge from the activation of perception relevant actions during mental imagery. In Experiment 2, we investigated whether such gestures have a causal role in affecting the quality of mental imagery. Participants were randomly assigned to gesture, not gesture, or engage in a manual interference task as they attempted to reinterpret a figure they had learned through manual exploration. We found that manual interference significantly impaired participants' success on the task. Taken together, these results suggest that gestures reflect mental imaginings of interactions with a mental image and that these imaginings are critically important for mental manipulation and reinterpretation of that image. However, our results suggest that enacting the imagined movements in gesture is not critically important on this particular task. 12 p.
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- 2019