ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Differential influence of habitual third-person vision of a body part on mental rotation of images of hands and feet.
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- The effect of handedness on mental rotation of hands: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological research · 2021Pooled it
- Functional perspectives in mental jigsaw puzzles: Insights from eye-tracking, questionnaire, and behavioral data.PloS one · 2025Article
- Degraded Visibility Body-Specifically Affects Mental Rotation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the association of postural control with indirect measures of body representations.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Individual differences in processing ability to transform visual stimuli during the mental rotation task are closely related to individual motor adaptation ability.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Implicit motor imagery performance is impaired in people with chronic, but not acute, neck pain.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Is Bodily Experience an Epiphenomenon of Multisensory Integration and Cognition?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Left/right judgement (LRJ) tasks involve determining the laterality of presented hand or feet images. Allocentric images (third-person perspective; 3PP) take longer to identify than egocentric images (first-person perspective; 1PP), supporting that implicit motor imagery (IMI)-mentally manoeuvring one's body to match the shown posture-is used. While numerous cognitive processes are involved during LRJs, it remains unclear whether features of the individual (e.g., visual exposure, experience, task-dependent use) influence the type of recognition strategy used during LRJs (IMI versus non-IMI). To investigate whether an individual's routine visual exposure to hands/feet in 3PP disrupts the typical perspective-reaction time (RT) relationship in LRJs, hand therapists, podiatrists, and healthy controls completed online LRJ tasks of hand and feet images. A group-specific reduction in RT for only allocentric images would represent a switch to non-IMI strategies. The results show that routine visual exposure to feet in 3PP (podiatrists) results in quicker RTs only for allocentric images of feet, suggesting a switch from IMI to non-IMI (e.g., visual object-based recognition) strategies. In contrast, routine visual exposure to hands in 3PP (hand therapists) does not alter RT for allocentric images, suggesting maintenance of IMI. However, hand therapists have quicker RTs (vs other groups) for egocentric hand images, supporting enhanced sensorimotor processing for the hand, consistent with task-dependent use (precise hand use). Higher accuracy in health professionals (vs control) on both tasks supports enhanced body schema. Combined, this suggests that 3PP visual exposure to body parts and task-dependent use contribute to LRJ performance/recognition strategy.
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