Let's do it: Response times in Mental Paper Folding and its execution.

ABSTRACT: Action imagery is the ability to mentally simulate the execution of an action without physically performing it. Action imagery is assumed to rely at least partly on similar mechanisms as action execution. Therefore, we expected that imagery and execution durations would be constrained by the number of folds in a Paper Folding Task. Analogously, individual differences in execution durations were expected to be reflected in imagery durations. Twenty-eight participants performed two imagery conditions (computer vs. paper) and one execution condition (paper) where two-dimensional grids of a three-dimensional cube were (mentally) folded to determine whether two selected edges overlapped or not. As expected, imagery performance and execution performance were strongly correlated and decreased wit

SUBMITTER: Dahm SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11905326 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature