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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Spatial Cognition

Background:

  • Previous research indicates origami improves spatial ability through cognitive training.
  • The specific cognitive mechanisms underlying origami's impact on spatial skills remain largely unexplored.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for optimizing origami-based interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the cognitive factors involved in origami imagery.
  • To examine the relationship between these factors, mental transformations, and visual imagery vividness.
  • To propose a cognitive model for origami imagery.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in origami imagery, imagining the paper folding process.
  • Key cognitive factors were identified: transformation controllability, shape/color imagery, and hand sensations.
  • Associations between these factors, mental transformations, and imagery vividness were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Four cognitive factors in origami imagery were identified: transformation controllability, visual shape imagery, hand sensations, and visual color imagery.
  • Controllability of transformations and visual shape imagery were linked to non-rigid mental transformations.
  • Vividness of visual imagery correlated positively with all four identified cognitive factors.

Conclusions:

  • Origami imagery involves specific cognitive factors influencing mental transformations and visual vividness.
  • A cognitive model of origami is proposed, highlighting the interplay between imagery, transformations, and vividness.
  • This model offers insights into how origami practice may enhance spatial cognition.