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Titel: Negative Effects of Embodiment in a Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task in Children, Young Adults, and Older Adults
VerfasserIn: Amico, Gianluca
Schaefer, Sabine
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Frontiers in Psychology
Bandnummer: 12
Verlag/Plattform: Frontiers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Freie Schlagwörter: embodiment
memory
cognition
spatial information
age comparison
DDC-Sachgruppe: 796 Sport
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Studies examining the effect of embodied cognition have shown that linking one’s body movements to a cognitive task can enhance performance. The current study investigated whether concurrent walking while encoding or recalling spatial information improves working memory performance, and whether 10-year-old children, young adults, or older adults (Mage = 72 years) are affected differently by embodiment. The goal of the Spatial Memory Task was to encode and recall sequences of increasing length by reproducing positions of target fields in the correct order. The nine targets were positioned in a random configuration on a large square carpet (2.5 m × 2.5 m). During encoding and recall, participants either did not move, or they walked into the target fields. In a within-subjects design, all possible combinations of encoding and recall conditions were tested in counterbalanced order. Contrary to our predictions, moving particularly impaired encoding, but also recall. These negative effects were present in all age groups, but older adults’ memory was hampered even more strongly by walking during encoding and recall. Our results indicate that embodiment may not help people to memorize spatial information, but can create a dual-task situation instead.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688174
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688174/full
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-363219
hdl:20.500.11880/32988
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-36321
ISSN: 1664-1078
Datum des Eintrags: 1-Jun-2022
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Supplementary Material
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688174/full#supplementary-material
Fakultät: HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung: HW - Sportwissenschaft
Professur: HW - Prof. Dr. Sabine Schäfer
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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