The role of gesture as simulated action in reinterpretation of mental imagery

Kamermans, Kevin; Pouw, Wim; Fassi, Luisa; Aslanidou, Asimina; Paas, Fred; Hostetter, Autumn B.

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.05.004

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“…More recently, the results of two studies on co-speech gestures seem to suggest that body manipulations at the recall phase may affect the way by which participants manipulate a given memory trace. In a study by Kamermans et al (2019), participants learned a bistable figure through touch for 30 seconds. Later on, they were introduced to the idea of bistability and were asked to reinterpret the figure-that is, to find the alternative interpretation of the learned figure by mentally simulate a rotation.…”

Section: Effect Of Body Manipulations On the Quality Of Memory Tracesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the manual interference condition, they were asked to drum their fingers with both hands continuously on the table. Results revealed that participants who were engaged in the secondary motor task were less successful in reinterpreting the figure, thereby indicating that by loading up the motor system it is possible to interfere with the ability to mentally rotate the figure stored in memory (Kamermans et al, 2019). Likewise, Nathan and Martinez (2015) have found that restricting gestures production during the test phase, by asking participants to tap with one hand a particular spatial pattern, results in a significant reduction in the ability to make inferences starting from the learned material.…”

Section: Effect Of Body Manipulations On the Quality Of Memory Tracesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embodied memories: Reviewing the role of the body in memory processes

Ianì

2019

Psychon Bull Rev

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This review aims at exploring the role of the body and its sensorimotor processes in memory. Recent theories have suggested that memories can profitably be seen as mental simulations consisting in the reactivation of sensorimotor patterns originally associated with events at encoding, rather than amodal mental representations. The sensorimotor model of memory (SMM) claims that the body is the medium where (and through which) sensorimotor modalities actually simulate the somatosensory components of remembered events, and predicts that memory processes can be manipulated through manipulation of the body. The review analyzes experimental evidence in favor of the SMM and the claim that the body is at stake in memory processes. The review then highlights how, at the current state of research, the majority of this evidence concerns the effect of body manipulations on memory processes rather than memory representations. It considers the need for a more circumstantial outline of the actual extent to which the body is capable of affecting memory, specifically on some important areas still unexplored, such as the sense of recollection. Resulting strengths and limitations of the SMM are discussed in relation to the more general debate on the embodied cognition.

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Section: Effect Of Body Manipulations On the Quality Of Memory Tracesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effect Of Body Manipulations On the Quality Of Memory Tracesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodied memories: Reviewing the role of the body in memory processes

Ianì

2019

Psychon Bull Rev

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“…Hostetter and Alibali (2010) found that speakers gestured more about visual patterns when they had motor experience making those patterns (by arranging wooden disks) before describing them than when they had only viewed the patterns. Similarly, Kamermans et al (2018) found that participants gestured more about a figure they had learned through haptic exploration than about a pattern they had learned visually. In both cases, participants gestured more when describing information they had learned through manual experience-that was thus more evocative of motor imagery-than when describing something they had learned through visual experience alone.…”

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Gesture as simulated action: Revisiting the framework

2018

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The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur during speaking and thinking (Hostetter & Alibali, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 495-514, 2008). In this review, we revisit the framework's six main predictions regarding gesture rates, gesture form, and the cognitive cost of inhibiting gesture. We find that the available evidence largely supports the main predictions of the framework. We also consider several challenges to the framework that have been raised, as well as several of the framework's limitations as it was originally proposed. We offer additional elaborations of the framework to address those challenges that fall within the framework's scope, and we conclude by identifying key directions for future work on how gestures arise from an embodied mind.

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“…Secondly, reactivation of stored efferent activities may be fed into forward models which allow the cognitive system to emulate actions in an offline manner (Glenberg et al 2013;Grush 2004). In this way, haptic-based motor imagery complements visual imagery, resulting in mental simulations of possible uses of objects, tools, or materials, as evidenced by increased frequencies of gestures during verbal descriptions of object manipulations (Hostetter and Alibali 2008;Kamermans et al 2019).…”

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Does Touching Real Objects Affect Learning?

Novak

Schwan

2020

Educ Psychol Rev

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Based on theories of multimedia learning, the present study investigated whether the haptic sense serves as an additional channel to enhance the learning experience and learning outcomes. We therefore set up an experimental exhibition with two showrooms. In the first showroom, the sensory access of the participants to the exhibition objects was systematically varied in a 2 × 2 design with the between-subjects factors vision and haptics. While one group of participants could touch and see the objects, others could either only see or only touch them. The fourth group of participants found a showroom without objects. To address the auditory access, all participants were provided with information about each object via an audio guide. In the second showroom, further information was presented using posters. This showroom was the same for every participant. We aimed to investigate whether the haptic experience in the first showroom served as a motivator to engage further with the topic. The participants filled out questionnaires before visiting the first showroom, after visiting the first showroom, and after visiting the second showroom. To investigate the differences between the experimental groups on different outcomes, a memory test, a knowledge test, and various motivational-affective scales were used. The long-term effects of the information presentation were measured after 3 weeks. We found an advantage for recalling the objects and a heightened negative affect due to the haptic experience. Implications and further directions for this research will be discussed.

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The role of gesture as simulated action in reinterpretation of mental imagery

Cited by 7 publications

References 59 publications

Embodied memories: Reviewing the role of the body in memory processes

Embodied memories: Reviewing the role of the body in memory processes

Gesture as simulated action: Revisiting the framework

Does Touching Real Objects Affect Learning?

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