The current study originates from inconsistent findings within the framework of embodied language processing, specifically in the reading-by-rotating literature: whereas some studies report a match advantage (e.g., Zwaan and Taylor (J Exp Psychol 135:1, 2006)), i.e., shorter reading times when the direction of a linguistically conveyed manual rotation matched rather than mismatched the direction of an actually to be performed manual rotation Claus (Acta Psychol 156:104–113, 2015) found a mismatch advantage. The current study addresses two explanations that were previously discussed as potentially responsible for this inconsistency: on the one hand, differences in the knob devices employed; on the other hand, differences in the perspectives adopted by the readers depending on the number of characters involved in the narratives. Concurrently, the study exploits individual differences in motoric experience to explore the experiential basis of action-sentence compatibility effects. The results are inconclusive with respect to the two explanations. However, in their overall picture, they contribute suggestive considerations for the ongoing debate on action-simulation effects by pointing to the potential role of interindividual variation in motoric experience.

当前的研究源于具体语言处理框架内的不一致发现，特别是在旋转阅读文献中：而一些研究报告了匹配优势（例如，Zwaan 和 Taylor (J Exp Psychol 135:1, 2006)），即，当语言传达的手动旋转的方向与实际执行的手动旋转的方向匹配而不是不匹配时，阅读时间更短 Claus (Acta Psychol 156:104–113, 2015) 发现了不匹配的优势。目前的研究解决了之前讨论过的可能导致这种不一致的两种解释：一方面，所使用的旋钮装置存在差异；另一方面，根据叙述中涉及的人物数量，读者所采用的观点也有所不同。同时，该研究利用运动体验中的个体差异来探索动作-句子相容性效果的经验基础。就这两种解释而言，结果尚无定论。然而，总的来说，他们通过指出运动体验中个体差异的潜在作用，为正在进行的关于动作模拟效果的辩论提供了建议性的考虑。