Action, Verbal Response and Spatial Reasoning

Autor/in	Wang, Ranxiao Frances
Titel	Action, Verbal Response and Spatial Reasoning
Quelle	In: Cognition, 94 (2004) 2, S.185-192 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2004.05.001
Schlagwörter	Spatial Ability; Verbal Communication; Thinking Skills; Perceptual Development; Perception Tests; Experiential Learning; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Denkfähigkeit; Wahrnehmungsentwicklung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	Studies have shown that perception of distance, orientation and size can be dissociated from action tasks. The action system seems to possess more veridical, unbiased information than the perceptual/verbal system. The current study examines the nature of the distinction between action and verbal responses in a spatial reasoning task. Participants imagined themselves facing different orientations and either pointed to where other objects would be, or verbally reported their egocentric directions (e.g., "50 degrees to my left"). When using pointing responses, RT and error increased as a function of the angular disparity between the imagined heading and their actual heading. However, when using verbal responses, performance was not affected by angular disparity, suggesting that participants knew the direction of the targets from the imagined perspective but could not point to them directly. The verbal and action systems have fundamentally different information or processes rather than quantitatively different ones. (Author).
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