The effects of sensorimotor cues on spatial reasoning performance
Date
2006Source
Cognitive ProcessingVolume
7Issue
SUPPL. 1Pages
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A typical result in the spatial updating and the
perspective-taking literature is that performance suffers
when a target needs to be localized from a perspective
which is misaligned with the actual perspective of the
participant. In spatial updating studies, this result has
been traditionally attributed to the lack of vestibular
and proprioceptive cues during the imagined movement
which is required to adopt the imagined perspective. In
perspective-taking studies inferior performance is often
assumed to result from the construction of viewpointspecific
memories.
The fact that the vast majority of these studies have
used pointing as the response mode creates the possibility
that the inferior performance from imagined
perspectives is inherent to the response modality itself.
Pointing is by definition strongly dependent on one’s
physical body and this may create difficulties when the
task entails using pointing from a perspective other than
that of the physical body. Results from several experiments
will be reported in support of this hypothesis.