Visual imagery and enactment of actions in memory.(Imagery and Motor Processes)

From: British Journal of Psychology | Date: May 1, 1995| Author: Engelkamp, Johannes | Copyright information

It was assumed that self-performing an action necessarily focuses information-processing on action-relevant information in order to guarantee smooth enactment. As a consequence, enacting an action should provide the subjects with excellent item-specific information and hinder the subjects from encoding contextual information that is not a part of the action proper. These hypotheses were tested in paired-associate learning experiments in which unrelated action-verb-pairs served as stimuli. Fre...

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