2016
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159108
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Learning Is Better with the Hands Free: The Role of Posture in the Memory of Manipulable Objects

Abstract: Grounded cognition proposes that memory shares processing resources with sensorimotor systems. The aim of the present study was to show that motor simulation participates in the conceptual representation of manipulable objects in long-term memory. In two experiments, lists of manipulable and nonmanipulable objects were presented. Participants were instructed to memorize the items while adopting different postures. In the control condition, they had to keep their hands at rest in front of them. In the interfere… Show more

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“…Finally, the fact that participants had to write down the sentences during the free recall test might have produced motor interference in the simulation of a number of sentences that contained a certain degree of manual action, making contextual effects more difficult to develop. Although this interpretation would require additional research to be verified, it would be in line with recent studies that showed that interfering with manual action by keeping one's hands behind one's back decreases the memory for information related to manual action [52,53].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
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“…Finally, the fact that participants had to write down the sentences during the free recall test might have produced motor interference in the simulation of a number of sentences that contained a certain degree of manual action, making contextual effects more difficult to develop. Although this interpretation would require additional research to be verified, it would be in line with recent studies that showed that interfering with manual action by keeping one's hands behind one's back decreases the memory for information related to manual action [52,53].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Similarly, Michalak, Rohde, and Troje [50] found that manipulating the walking pattern of a group of students to resemble either a depressive gait or a happy gait biased the recall of a series of emotionally loaded words, revealing a congruence effect (see also [51]). Finally, Dutriaux and collaborators [52,53] found that adopting a posture that interferes with manual action (hands behind one's back) reduced the recall of pictures and words denoting manipulable objects as opposed to nonmanipulable ones and decreased memory for words referring to manipulable objects when they were associated with action verbs at encoding. Thus, it can be argued that the recall of material is primed when the bodily and neural systems related to perception, action, and emotion are activated in a manner that is congruent and integratible with the content of such material (see [54]), for example, by adopting a specific body posture, as memory depends on simulation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This posture has been chosen because it has been found to have a negative effect on motor simulation (e.g., Ambrosini & Costantini, 2017;Sirigu & Duhamel, 2001). Dutriaux and Gyselinck (2016) showed that keeping one's hands behind one's back interferes with the longterm memory of pictures as well as words denoting manipulable objects, but did not interfere with the memory of non-manipulable objects. This specific interfering effect of posture on action material, referred to as the Postural Interference effect (PI effect), clearly shows that conceptual memory and the motor system share processing resources and that long-term memory serves at least in part to support action.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, if the simulation of affordance is involved in the representation of manipulable objects, a constraining posture should interfere with the affordance and thus decrease the memory of manipulable objects. Based on this reasoning, Dutriaux and Gyselinck (2016) used two different postures. The control posture, in which the participants' hands were free in front of them, was chosen to favour free-hand actions and thus motor simulation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
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