Does movement influence representations of time and space?
Does movement influence representations of time and space?
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0175192
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Cañal-Bruland R
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作者：
Loeffler J;Raab M;Cañal-Bruland R
具身认知认为，抽象的概念性知识，如时间和空间的心理表征，至少部分建立在感觉运动经验的基础上。如果是真的，那么全身运动的执行应该导致时间和空间参照系的调制。为了验证这一假设，在两个实验中，参与者要么向前、向后走，要么站在跑步机上，并在步行操作结束时回答一个模棱两可的时间问题(实验1)或一个模糊的空间问题(实验2)。结果证实了控制条件下问题的模糊性。然而，尽管力量很大，向前或向后行走并不影响对时间问题(实验1)或空间问题(实验2)的回答或反应时间。后续实验3表明，在自由空间(而不是跑步机)主动(或被动)行走也是如此。我们探讨了零发现的可能原因，涉及到运动对时间和空间参照系的调节，并批判性地讨论了其方法和理论意义。
Embodied cognition posits that abstract conceptual knowledge such as mental representations of time and space are at least partially grounded in sensorimotor experiences. If true, then the execution of whole-body movements should result in modulations of temporal and spatial reference frames. To scrutinize this hypothesis, in two experiments participants either walked forward, backward or stood on a treadmill and responded either to an ambiguous temporal question (Experiment 1) or an ambiguous spatial question (Experiment 2) at the end of the walking manipulation. Results confirmed the ambiguousness of the questions in the control condition. Nevertheless, despite large power, walking forward or backward did not influence the answers or response times to the temporal (Experiment 1) or spatial (Experiment 2) question. A follow-up Experiment 3 indicated that this is also true for walking actively (or passively) in free space (as opposed to a treadmill). We explore possible reasons for the null-finding as concerns the modulation of temporal and spatial reference frames by movements and we critically discuss the methodological and theoretical implications.