Motor imagery theory of a contralateral handedness effect in recognition memory: Toward a chiral psychology of cognition.

Spatial recall improved by retrieval enactment

“…The possibility to be explored here is that physical movement by the participant can serve in general to supplement reliance upon allocentric representations in recall by promoting a contribution from the other, egocentric component. Indeed, because of the widespread prevalence of motor imagery or activation without overt movement (e.g., Martin & Jones, 1999;Szameitat, Shen, & Sterr, 2007), a contribution from this source is expected even in the absence of physical movement. According to this account, therefore, the adoption of relevant physical movement has the potential to enhance overall levels of memory retrieval and, conversely, the adoption of irrelevant physical movement has the potential to impair memory recall, due to the facilitation or impedance, respectively, of retrieval from egocentric representations.…”

“…It was also found that irrelevant motor action exerted a significant effect in the direction opposite to enactment (though subject to a floor effect in the case of calculator numbers), which may be attributed to the disruption of motor activation that is present even in the absence of overt movement (e.g., Jeannerod, 1997;Martin & Jones, 1999). It would be valuable to examine in an imaging investigation the hypothesis that enactment and irrelevant action exert opposing modulatory effects on activity associated with egocentric-allocentric transformation along the circuit of Papez (see also Aggleton & Brown, 1999;Byrne et al, 2007).…”

Misremembering the Appearance of Common Objects: Further Cross-Cultural Confirmation

“…The study included an assessment of participants' recognition of a true coin from a selection of fakes and has been adapted and replicated using coinage in different countries throughout the world, including Britain (Morris, 1988), Canada (McKelvie, 1994), Japan (Kikuno, 1993), and Portugal (Barbas de Albuquerque & Pinto, 1990). In another British study, even when the true coin was presented alongside just one fake (where the main visual element of the design was presented in mirror-image), only 53% of participants successfully identified the actual coin (Martin &Jones, 1999). In the USA, Nickerson and Adams found that only 24% of participants could identlfy a true American penny when presented alongside 14 fakes, whereas in the UK, Morris (1988) found that only 15% of participants could successfully pick out a British coin alongside 11 fakes.…”

“…When asked to draw a common coin, only 7 of 46 British participants (Jones, 1990), 36 out of 125 Canadian participants (McKelvie & Aikins, 1993), and 58 out of 160 French participants (Martin & Jones, 1992) did so with the main visual element facing in the correct direction. Some authors have speculated that such low accuracy not only demonstrates poor memory, but in fact demonstrates a bias towards misremembering, given that accuracy is frequently well below chance (Martin &Jones, 1999). Some authors have speculated that such low accuracy not only demonstrates poor memory, but in fact demonstrates a bias towards misremembering, given that accuracy is frequently well below chance (Martin &Jones, 1999).…”

The Chain of Chirality Transfer as Determinant of Brain Functional Laterality. Breaking the Chirality Silence: Search for New Generation of Biomarkers; Relevance to Neurodegenerative Diseases, Cognitive Psychology, and Nutrition Science

“…The symmetry effects propagate from the level of molecular spatial transformations, intracellular /cross-membrane molecular transport, cell motility, to the higher hierarchical level of the spatial organization such as the cell proliferation [47], immune defense, environmental chemistry [49], motor behavior, brain cognitive functions, human psychology [50], psychiatry [48,[51][52][53]. The symmetry effects play a critical role in food preparation [54,55], pharmaceutical industry [56,57], design of molecular devices (biosensors and information processing units.…”