This work is rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm applied to the evaluation of visuospatial memory span. We aimed to test whether manuospatial incompatibility affects the evaluation of visuospatial working memory. Older and younger participants were tested under two different spatial field conditions, namely manuospatial incompatibility and manuospatial compatibility, using the standard Corsi Block Tapping Task. The results show that a manuospatial compatibility condition helped both younger and older participants to increase their visuospatial working memory span compared to the traditional manuospatial incompatibility condition. By analyzing the data, our results showed an increase of visuospatial memory span in manuospatial compatibility condition (i.e., the experimenter using his left hand and the participant his right hand) compared to manuospatial incompatibility condition for younger and older adults. We recommend that the interaction between body and cognition would be taken into account in clinical evaluation methods.

这项工作植根于应用于视觉空间记忆跨度评估的内在认知范式。我们旨在测试手空间不兼容是否会影响视空间工作记忆的评估。使用标准的“ Corsi区块点击任务”，在两个不同的空间场条件下测试了年龄较大和较年轻的参与者，即空间空间不兼容性和空间空间兼容性。结果表明，与传统的手空间不相容条件相比，手空间相容性条件帮助年轻和年长的参与者增加了他们的视觉空间工作记忆跨度。通过分析数据，我们的结果表明，在空间兼容性条件下，视觉空间记忆跨度有所增加（即 （实验者用左手，参与者用右手）与年轻人和老年人的手部空间不兼容情况进行了比较。我们建议在临床评估方法中考虑身体与认知之间的相互作用。