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EXPRESS: Embodied Mental Imagery Improves Memory
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ( IF 1.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 , DOI: 10.1177/17470218211009227
Quentin Marre 1 , Nathalie Huet 1 , Elodie Labeye 1
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According to embodied cognition theory, cognitive processes are grounded in sensory, motor and emotional systems. This theory supports the idea that language comprehension and access to memory are based on sensorimotor mental simulations, which does indeed explain experimental results for visual imagery. These results show that word memorization is improved when the individual actively simulates the visual characteristics of the object to be learned. Very few studies, however, have investigated the effectiveness of more embodied mental simulations, that is, simulating both the sensory and motor aspects of the object (i.e., motor imagery) from a first-person perspective. The recall performances of 83 adults were analysed in four different conditions: mental rehearsal, visual imagery, third-person motor imagery, and first-person motor imagery. Results revealed a memory efficiency gradient running from low-embodiment strategies (i.e., involving poor perceptual and/or motor simulation) to high-embodiment strategies (i.e., rich simulation in the sensory and motor systems involved in interactions with the object). However, the benefit of engaging in motor imagery, as opposed to purely visual imagery, was only observed when participants adopted the first-person perspective. Surprisingly, visual and motor imagery vividness seemed to play a negligible role in this effect of the sensorimotor grounding of mental imagery on memory efficiency.



中文翻译:

EXPRESS:具身心理意象提高记忆力

根据具身认知理论,认知过程以感觉、运动和情感系统为基础。该理论支持语言理解和记忆访问基于感觉运动心理模拟的观点,这确实解释了视觉图像的实验结果。这些结果表明,当个体主动模拟要学习的对象的视觉特征时,单词记忆得到改善。然而,很少有研究调查更多具身心理模拟的有效性,即从第一人称的角度模拟物体的感官和运动方面(即运动意象)。在四种不同条件下分析了 83 名成年人的回忆表现:心理排练、视觉意象、第三人称运动意象和第一人称运动意象。结果揭示了从低体现策略(即,涉及较差的感知和/或运动模拟)到高体现策略(即,涉及与对象交互的感觉和运动系统中的丰富模拟)的记忆效率梯度。然而,只有当参与者采用第一人称视角时,才观察到参与运动图像的好处,而不是纯粹的视觉图像。令人惊讶的是,在心理意象的感觉运动基础对记忆效率的这种影响中,视觉和运动意象的生动性似乎起着微不足道的作用。与物体交互所涉及的感官和运动系统的丰富模拟)。然而,只有当参与者采用第一人称视角时,才观察到参与运动图像的好处,而不是纯粹的视觉图像。令人惊讶的是,在心理意象的感觉运动基础对记忆效率的这种影响中,视觉和运动意象的生动性似乎起着微不足道的作用。与物体交互所涉及的感官和运动系统的丰富模拟)。然而,只有当参与者采用第一人称视角时,才观察到参与运动图像的好处,而不是纯粹的视觉图像。令人惊讶的是,在心理意象的感觉运动基础对记忆效率的这种影响中,视觉和运动意象的生动性似乎起着微不足道的作用。

更新日期:2021-03-25
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