Motor Representations In Memory And Mental Models: Embodiment in Cognition
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A variety of experimental results have suggested that motor systems can participate in what were thought to be purely perceptual tasks. Extending previous work in the stimulusresponse compatibility paradigm, we show that a representation of a visual stimulus accessed from memory can activate potential motor interactions. Other research has shown that mental images and mental models can have analogue or spatial characteristics. In our second experiment, we present evidence that such representations, generated purely from linguistic descriptions, can also activate motor affordances. Results are discussed within the context of the embodiment of conceptual, as well as perceptual, processes
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