Kaltner, Sandra and Riecke, Bernhard E. and Jansen, Petra (2014) Embodied mental rotation: a special link between egocentric transformation and the bodily self. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 5: 505. ISSN 1664-1078,
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This experiment investigated the influence of motor expertise on object-based versus egocentric transformations in a chronometric mental rotation task using images of either the own or another person's body as stimulus material. According to the embodied cognition viewpoint, we hypothesized motor-experts to outperform non-motor experts specifically in the egocentric condition because of higher kinesthetic representation and motor simulations compared to object-based transformations. In line with this, we expected that images of the own body are solved faster than another person's body stimuli. Results showed a benefit of motor expertise and representations of another person's body, but only for the object-based transformation task. That is, this other-advantage diminishes in egocentric transformations. Since motor experts did not show any specific expertise in rotational movements, we concluded that using human bodies as stimulus material elicits embodied spatial transformations, which facilitates performance exclusively for egocentric transformations. Regarding stimulus material, the other-advantage ascribed to increased self-awareness-consciousness distracting attention-demanding resources, disappeared in the egocentric condition. This result may be due to the stronger link between the bodily self and motor representations compared to that emerging in object-based transformations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; MOTOR IMAGERY; 3-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS; BODY-OWNERSHIP; PERFORMANCE; ABILITY; DISSOCIATION; RECOGNITION; EXPERTISE; COGNITION; mental rotation; motor expertise; object-based and egocentric transformation; self-other related stimuli |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2019 07:24 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2019 07:24 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10037 |
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