Does the motor system facilitate spatial imagery? Effects of motor action and perception on spatial transformations in human development.

Autor/inn/en	Krüger, Markus; Krist, Horst
Titel	Does the motor system facilitate spatial imagery? Effects of motor action and perception on spatial transformations in human development.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, 49 (2017) 3, S. 127-137Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-8637; 2190-6262
DOI	10.1026/0049-8637/a000175
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Entwicklung; Räumliche Bildvorstellung; Räumliche Wahrnehmung; Kindheit; Kind; Mentales Training; Schüler; Entwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Rotation; Kind; Primarbereich; Schüler; Mentales Training; Rotation; Entwicklung; Kindergartenkind
Abstract	Examined the effects of motor action and perception on spatial transformations in human development. In a motor condition, participants (kindergartners and 3rd-graders) were asked to manually rotate a circular board with a covered picture on it. This condition was compared with a perceptual condition where the board was rotated by an experimenter. Additionally, in a pure imagery condition, children were instructed to merely imagine the rotation of the board. The children's task was to mark the presumed end position of a salient detail of the respective picture. The children's performance was clearly the worst in the pure imagery condition. However, contrary to what embodiment theories would suggest, there was no difference in participants' performance between the active rotation (i.e., motor) and the passive rotation (i.e., perception) condition. Control experiments revealed that this was also the case when, in the perception condition, gaze shifting was controlled for and when the board was rotated mechanically rather than by the experimenter. It is concluded that young children depend heavily on external support when imagining physical events. Furthermore, results are assumed to indicate that motor-assisted imagery is not generally superior to perceptually driven dynamic imagery. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2018/2