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Motion/Fictitious/Cognition/Simulation/Matlock/Gärdenfors: (Matlock 2004)(1): Test persons reacted faster after reading stories about traveling in fast vehicles. Thesis: the test persons simulate mental visual scanning, while they process sentences through fictitious movements. This fits Kosslyn (1980)(2) on mental visualization.


1. Matlock, T. (2004). Fictive motion as cognitive simulation. Memory and Cognition, 32, 1389–1400.
2. Kosslyn, S. M. (1980). Image and mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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