The Role of Gesture as Simulated Action in Reinterpretation of Mental Imagery

In the current confirmatory study, we conducted two experiments that examined the role of gesture in reinterpreting a mental image. In the first experiment, we observed that participants gestured more about figures they had learned through manual exploration than about figures they had learned through vision. Experiment 2 investigated whether such gestures have a causal role in affecting the quality of mental imagery by manipulating participants’ gesture activity.

在本次确证性研究中，我们进行了两项实验，旨在探究手势在重新诠释心理图像中的作用。在第一项实验中，我们发现参与者对通过手动探索所学习到的图像进行的手势动作比通过视觉学习到的图像更为频繁。第二项实验通过操纵参与者的手势活动，探究此类手势是否在影响心理图像质量方面具有因果关系。