Does body awareness influence visual spatial intelligence?

Autor/inn/en	Kaltner, Sandra; Jansen, Petra
Titel	Does body awareness influence visual spatial intelligence? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beeinflusst die Körperwahrnehmung die visuelle räumliche Intelligenz?
Quelle	In: International journal of learning, teaching and educational research, 13 (2015) 4, S. 1-13 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1694-2116; 1694-2493
Schlagwörter	Visuelle Vorstellung; Erziehungswissenschaft; Empirische Untersuchung; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Kognition; Kognitive Leistung; Leistungsfähigkeit; Motorische Leistungsfähigkeit; Psychologie; Räumliche Wahrnehmung; Test; Frau; Körper (Biol); Magersucht; Rotation; Bewegung (Motorische); Körperwahrnehmung; Leistungssport; Sportunterricht; Leistungsförderung; Erwachsener; Jugendlicher; Mädchen; Sportler
Abstract	The embodiment approach suggests that processes in the body influence cognitive performance. Due to this in the present study, female patients with high body awareness-elite athletes and patients with Anorexia Nervosa- as well as healthy controls performed a mental rotation task with different kinds of stimuli. Mental rotation is the ability to imagine objects from different perspectives. The results show that both experimental groups revealed a better mental rotation performance than the control group in form of faster reaction times. This result is independent of the kind of stimuli, i.e., if the mental rotation requires the transformation of the self (egocentric) or the object (object-based). We further found that BMI and IQ correlated with reaction time. Because there was no difference between the elite athletes (positive body awareness) compared to the patients with Anorexia Nervosa (negative body awareness) the results suggest that any occupation with the body relates to visual spatial intelligence. This result is discussed regarding its importance in the educational context. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2022/3