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Effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: Evidence from eye movements

Previous studies showed that (a) performing pointing movements towards to-be-remembered locations enhanced their later recognition, and (b) in a joint-action condition, experimenter-performed pointing movements benefited memory to the same extent as self-performed movements. The present study replic...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Divya, Mohite, Vaishnavi, Spataro, Pietro, Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia, Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34480326
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01230-w
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author Bhatia, Divya
Mohite, Vaishnavi
Spataro, Pietro
Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia
Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
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Mohite, Vaishnavi
Spataro, Pietro
Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia
Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
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description Previous studies showed that (a) performing pointing movements towards to-be-remembered locations enhanced their later recognition, and (b) in a joint-action condition, experimenter-performed pointing movements benefited memory to the same extent as self-performed movements. The present study replicated these findings and additionally recorded participants’ fixations towards studied arrays. Each trial involved the presentation of two consecutive spatial arrays, where each item occupied a different spatial location. The item locations of one array were encoded by mere visual observation (the no-move array), whereas the locations of the other array were encoded by observation plus pointing movements (the move array). Critically, in Experiment 1, participants took turns with the experimenter in pointing towards the move arrays (joint-action condition), while in Experiment 2 pointing was performed only by the experimenter (passive condition). The results showed that the locations of move arrays were recognized better than the locations of no-move arrays in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. The pattern of eye-fixations was in line with behavioral findings, indicating that in Experiment 1, fixations to the locations of move arrays were higher in number and longer in duration than fixations to the locations of no-move arrays, irrespective of the agent who performed the movements. In contrast, no differences emerged in Experiment 2. We propose that, in the joint-action condition, self- and other-performed pointing movements are coded at the same representational level and their functional equivalency is reflected in a similar pattern of eye-fixations.
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spelling pubmed-88215112022-02-22 Effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: Evidence from eye movements Bhatia, Divya Mohite, Vaishnavi Spataro, Pietro Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia Mishra, Ramesh Kumar Mem Cognit Article Previous studies showed that (a) performing pointing movements towards to-be-remembered locations enhanced their later recognition, and (b) in a joint-action condition, experimenter-performed pointing movements benefited memory to the same extent as self-performed movements. The present study replicated these findings and additionally recorded participants’ fixations towards studied arrays. Each trial involved the presentation of two consecutive spatial arrays, where each item occupied a different spatial location. The item locations of one array were encoded by mere visual observation (the no-move array), whereas the locations of the other array were encoded by observation plus pointing movements (the move array). Critically, in Experiment 1, participants took turns with the experimenter in pointing towards the move arrays (joint-action condition), while in Experiment 2 pointing was performed only by the experimenter (passive condition). The results showed that the locations of move arrays were recognized better than the locations of no-move arrays in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. The pattern of eye-fixations was in line with behavioral findings, indicating that in Experiment 1, fixations to the locations of move arrays were higher in number and longer in duration than fixations to the locations of no-move arrays, irrespective of the agent who performed the movements. In contrast, no differences emerged in Experiment 2. We propose that, in the joint-action condition, self- and other-performed pointing movements are coded at the same representational level and their functional equivalency is reflected in a similar pattern of eye-fixations. Springer US 2021-09-03 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8821511/ /pubmed/34480326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01230-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: Evidence from eye movements
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title_fullStr Effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: Evidence from eye movements
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title_short Effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: Evidence from eye movements
title_sort effects of pointing movements on visuospatial working memory in a joint-action condition: evidence from eye movements
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34480326
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01230-w
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