Signing enhances memory like performing actions |
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Authors: | Zimmer Hubert D Engelkamp Johannes |
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Institution: | (1) FR Psychologie, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany |
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Abstract: | In three experiments, we investigated the influence of the overt performance of signs on memory. Deaf and hearing participants
studied lists of action phrases (Experiment 1) or nouns (Experiment 2) under standard verbal instruction, under the instructions
to sign the verbal phrase, to symbolically perform the denoted action, or to carry out a prototypical action corresponding
to each noun. Higher recall and recognition performances were observed when actions were performed than in the verbal encoding
condition, and signing was as effective for memory as was enactment. Thus, overt signing can induce an enactment effect. In
contrast, Experiment 3 demonstrated that performing an unrelated action did not. A unique but unrelated action was not memory
efficient. |
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