Effects of Tropical Climate on Mental Rotation: The Role of Imagery Ability

Robin, Nicolas; Coudevylle, Guillaume R.; Sinnapah, Stéphane

doi:10.5406/amerjpsyc.130.4.0455

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“…This result confirmed those recently obtained by Robin et al (2017) during which participants fulfilled the Movement Imagery Questionnaire Revised (Hall & Martin, 1997) and the a mental rotation test and that showed that TC negatively influenced mental rotation, motor imagery and imagery ability. Similar results were observed during heat exposure in studies using different complex tasks (Hocking et al, 2001;Robin & Coudevylle, 2018;Robin et al, 2019).…”

Section: Climate and Mental Imagerysupporting

confidence: 91%

Effects of tropical climate and language format on imagery ability among French-Creole Bilinguals

Robin¹,

Anciaux

Coudevylle³

2020

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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This study examined how a tropical climate (i.e., hot and wet climatic environment) and different language instructions, in French and in Creole, could affect imagery ability on French-Creole bilingual in the French West Indies. Participants were divided into two groups: Half of them completed the French Movement Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ-F), the others realized the Creole version (MIQ-C), in Neutral Climate (NC) then in Tropical Climate (TC). The results of this original study showed that participants had lower visual and kinaesthetic MIQ-F and kinaesthetic MIQ-C imagery scores, but had higher visual MIQ-C imagery scores, in TC than in NC. Poor imagers had significant lower kinaesthetic MIQ-F, and better visual MIQ-C imagery scores in TC than in NC. The results of this study suggested that imagery language instruction can modulate the influence of tropical climate on imagery ability. The difference between Creole and French language effects on cognition as imagery is discussed.

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Section: Climate and Mental Imagerysupporting

confidence: 91%

Effects of tropical climate and language format on imagery ability among French-Creole Bilinguals

Robin¹,

Anciaux

Coudevylle³

2020

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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“…Depending on their complexity, cognitive tasks may be differently impacted by TC (Robin et al, in press). Whereas heat stress does not affect tasks like simple tasks, more complex tasks such as a pointing task (Ernwein and Keller, 1998;Robin et al, 2017) or sustained attention (Vasmatzidis et al, 2002;Coudevylle et al, 2018) and working memory (Gaoua et al, 2018) tasks are negatively affected. The effects of heat or TC on cognitive performance depend on multiple personal factors − such as level of expertise, sex, hydration status, and heat acclimation − and many external factors, including task duration, the methodology utilized to attain hyperthermia, and the intensity and duration of the thermal stressor (for a review, see Gaoua, 2010;Schmit et al, 2017).…”

Section: Consequences Of Tc For Cognitive Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

If Motivation Was a Key Factor in Aerobic Performance in Tropical Climate?

Coudevylle¹,

Sinnapah²,

Collado³

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Front. Psychol.

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This mini review examines the impact of tropical climate (TC) on motivational factors during aerobic performance and proposes the tracks of an integrative theoretical model to better understand the direct and indirect motivational mechanisms that can operate on athletic performances. TC is detrimental for aerobic performance and, although it clearly induces physiological constraints, these do not seem to be the only factors that explain the performance decline. Indeed, TC performance researchers have developed a theory of anticipation, which suggests that the brain commands a reduction in effort to protect the body from probable harm and heatstroke risk. The objective of this mini review is thus to examine the possibility that motivation may be a key factor in TC performance. The main psychological impacts of TC on aerobic performance are reviewed and an integrative theoretical model is presented that may help to better understand the mechanisms of motivation.

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“…En effet, [86] ont montré l'utilisation de davantage de ressources cognitives en condition de TE, pour rester concentré, dans des tâches d'attention. Il a ainsi été envisagé que la réduction de la contrainte thermique augmenterait la disponibilité des ressources attentionnelles qui pourraient ensuite être utilisées pour faire face aux demandes cognitives liées à l'exercice et imposées par le stress thermique [4,87]. De même, alors qu'une TE induit généralement une augmentation de la température cutanée qui peut causer de l'inconfort, du déplaisir et détériorer l'activité corticale [24], la limitation de la hausse de cette température au moyen de gilet réfrigéré, de poches de glace ou de serviettes froides pourrait permettre le refroidissement de la peau et ainsi favoriser les performances des athlètes dans des tâches exigeantes sur le plan cognitif [14], lorsque la réglementation le permet.…”

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