When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of motor simulation in a memory task performed by novice and expert rock climbers

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-73

  Pezzulo, Giovanni ^a,b   Barca, Laura ^c   Bocconi, Alessandro Lamberti ^d   Borghi, Anna M ^b,e  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c Children's Hospital Bambino Ges IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affordance; Canonical neurons; Embodied cognition; Grounded cognition; Memory for actions; Mirror neurons; Motor chunks; Motor memory; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; ROCK CLIMBING;

ATHLETES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR SKILLS; MOUNTAINEERING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952550740     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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