Reference : Preparing a cup of tea and writing a letter: Do script-based actions influence the re...

	Document type :	Parts of books : Contribution to collective works
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Social, industrial & organizational psychology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/4369

Title :	Preparing a cup of tea and writing a letter: Do script-based actions influence the representation of a real environment?
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Wagener, Monika [University of Trier > Department of Psychology]
	Mecklenbräuker, Silvia [University of Trier > Department of Psychology]
	Wippich, Werner [University of Trier > Department of Psychology]
	Saathoff, Jörg E. [University of Trier > Department of Psychology]
	Melzer, André [University of Trier > Department of Psychology]
Publication date :	2000
Main document title :	Spatial Cognition II: An interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge
Editor :	Freksa, C.
	Habel, C.
	Wender, K.-F.
Publisher :	Springer
Pages :	363-386
Peer reviewed :	No
City :	Berlin
Country :	Germany
Abstract :	[en] Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of having people carry out a sequence of actions in an environment on the spatial representation of the environment. The actions were linked by a common theme (e.g., writing a letter). In Experiment 1, the spatial memory test consisted of an implicit and an explicit distance estimation task. Participants who carried out a sequence of script-based actions inside a room showed poor spatial knowledge for this particular room (as compared to a control room or control participants) in disregarding actual distances in their estimations. This deficit could be due to a loss of or to a poorer encoding of spatial information. The results of Experiment 2, however, suggest that the effects observed in Experiment 1 seem to depend on the spatial task used. With a positioning task at testing, we could not find any evidence that could be attributed to an action-based change of a spatial mental representation. In sum, the general hypothesis of action-based influences on mental spatial representations was not corroborated by convincing data.
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