reviousresearchdemonstratesthattheprocessingofspatialinformationandnumericalmagnitudearestrictlyinterwoven.Recentstudiesalsoprovideconvergingevidencethatnumberprocessingisinfluencedbybodymovements.Inthepresentstudywefurtherinvestigatethisissuebyfocusingonwhetherandhowmotionsexperiencedwiththewholebodycaninfluencearithmeticalcalculations.Weaskedparticipantstomakeadditionsorsubtractionswhileexperiencingleftwardandrightwardmotions.Datarevealedtheemergenceofacongruencyeffectbetweentheorientationinferredbythetypeofarithmeticalcalculationsandthetypeofmotionsexperiencedalonganhorizontalaxis.
Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions / Filomena, Anelli; Luisa, Lugli; Giulia, Baroni; Borghi, ANNA MARIA; Nicoletti, Roberto. - In: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1664-1078. - 5:(2014), pp. 1459.1-1459.5. [10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01459]
Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions
BORGHI, ANNA MARIA;NICOLETTI, ROBERTO
2014
Abstract
reviousresearchdemonstratesthattheprocessingofspatialinformationandnumericalmagnitudearestrictlyinterwoven.Recentstudiesalsoprovideconvergingevidencethatnumberprocessingisinfluencedbybodymovements.Inthepresentstudywefurtherinvestigatethisissuebyfocusingonwhetherandhowmotionsexperiencedwiththewholebodycaninfluencearithmeticalcalculations.Weaskedparticipantstomakeadditionsorsubtractionswhileexperiencingleftwardandrightwardmotions.Datarevealedtheemergenceofacongruencyeffectbetweentheorientationinferredbythetypeofarithmeticalcalculationsandthetypeofmotionsexperiencedalonganhorizontalaxis.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
