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Sensorimotor Interference When Reasoning About Described Environments

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Spatial Cognition V Reasoning, Action, Interaction (Spatial Cognition 2006)

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The influence of sensorimotor interference was examined in two experiments that compared pointing with iconic arrows and verbal responding in a task that entailed locating target-objects from imagined perspectives. Participants studied text narratives describing objects at locations around them in a remote environment and then responded to targets from memory. Results revealed only minor differences between the two response modes suggesting that bodily cues do not exert severe detrimental interference on spatial reasoning from imagined perspective when non-immediate described environments are used. The implications of the findings are discussed.

The presented work is part of an undergraduate thesis by Melina-Nicole Kyranidou.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marios N. Avraamides & Melina-Nicole Kyranidou

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Thomas Barkowsky

  2. Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10F, 35394, Giessen, Germany

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  3. LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, 91403, Orsay, France

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  4. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Daniel R. Montello

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Avraamides, M.N., Kyranidou, MN. (2007). Sensorimotor Interference When Reasoning About Described Environments . In: Barkowsky, T., Knauff, M., Ligozat, G., Montello, D.R. (eds) Spatial Cognition V Reasoning, Action, Interaction. Spatial Cognition 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4387. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75666-8_16

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