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Short-term upper limb immobilization and the embodied view of memory: A pilot study

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The present study aimed to explore the contribution of the manual sensorimotor system to the memory of graspable objects. Participants in the experimental group underwent a short-term upper limb immobilization design to decrease arousal to their dominant hand. Such designs are known to elicit updating of sensorimotor representations and to hardened use of implicit motor simulation, a process that occurs when observing graspable objects. Subsequently, a free recall and a recognition task of graspable and non-graspable objects took place. We found slower recognition for graspable than for non-graspable objects in the control group, while no differences appeared for the immobilized group. Moreover, the recognition latency for graspable objects tended to be slower for the control than for the immobilized group. These results suggest that a time demanding reactivation of motor simulation is elicited when a graspable object is correctly recognized by control participants. The effect of immobilization could prevent this reactivation, leading to faster recognition. Hence, immobilization selectively affects graspable object memory, showing a close relationship with the manual sphere of the sensorimotor system. We suggest that recognition accuracy would probably be affected in cases of stronger disruption of sensorimotor arousal.

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Psychologie
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hal-03501011 , version 1 (20-01-2024)

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Jérémy Villatte, Laurence Taconnat, Christel Bidet-Ildei, Lucette Toussaint. Short-term upper limb immobilization and the embodied view of memory: A pilot study. PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (3), pp.e0248239. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0248239⟩. ⟨hal-03501011⟩
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