Object affordance influences instruction span
- We measured memory span for assembly instructions involving objects with handles oriented to the left or right side. Right-handed participants remembered more instructions when objects' handles were spatially congruent with the hand used in forthcoming assembly actions. No such affordance-based memory benefit was found for left-handed participants. These results are discussed in terms of motor simulation as an embodied rehearsal mechanism.
| Author details: | Jens K. Apel, Angelo CangelosiORCiDGND, Rob Ellis, Jeremy Goslin, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3251-0 |
| ISSN: | 0014-4819 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Experimental brain research |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2012 |
| Publication year: | 2012 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Action simulation; Affordance; Embodied cognition; Rehearsal; Sequential instruction; Working memory |
| Volume: | 223 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 8 |
| First page: | 199 |
| Last Page: | 206 |
| Funding institution: | EPSRC under the Cognitive Foresight Program [EP/F028598/1] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
