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Preparing a cup of tea and writing a letter: Do script-based actions influence the representation of a real environment?
Wagener, Monika; Mecklenbräuker, Silvia; Wippich, Werner et al.
2000In Freksa, C.; Habel, C.; Wender, K.-F. (Eds.) Spatial Cognition II: An interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge
 

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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.
Disciplines :
Social, industrial & organizational psychology
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
Language :
English
Title :
Preparing a cup of tea and writing a letter: Do script-based actions influence the representation of a real environment?
Publication date :
2000
Main work title :
Spatial Cognition II: An interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge
Editor :
Freksa, C.
Habel, C.
Wender, K.-F.
Publisher :
Springer, Berlin, Germany
Pages :
363-386
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