Department of Life and Creative Sciences, Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College, Sapporo, Japan.
Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 2023 Jun;130(3):1324-1346. doi: 10.1177/00315125231165546. Epub 2023 Mar 23.
While previous studies found that origami, when used for cognitive training and education, can improve spatial ability, the underlying mechanisms of this change, presumably associated with the origami folding process, remain unclear. In the present study, we focused on origami imagery in which participants imagined the process of folding paper to create a work of art; and we examined the cognitive factors involved in the imagery process and their association with mental transformations and the extent to which visual imagery was vivid. We identified four specific relevant cognitive factors in origami imagery: (a) controllability of origami transformations, (b) visual imagery of shapes, (c) hand sensations, and (d) visual imagery of colors. We associated the first two of these with non-rigid transformations: the controllability of origami transformations and the visual imagery of shapes. Moreover, vividness of visual imagery was related to all four cognitive factors. We propose this cognitive model of origami as one that considers the key relationships between origami imagery, mental transformations, and vividness of visual imagery.
虽然先前的研究发现折纸（origami）在认知训练和教育中可以提高空间能力，但折纸折叠过程中可能与之相关的这种变化的潜在机制仍不清楚。在本研究中，我们专注于折纸意象，参与者想象折纸的过程来创作一件艺术品；并研究了意象过程中涉及的认知因素及其与心理转换的关联，以及视觉意象的生动程度。我们在折纸意象中确定了四个具体相关的认知因素：（a）折纸转换的可控性，（b）形状的视觉意象，（c）手部感觉，以及（d）颜色的视觉意象。我们将前两个因素与非刚性转换联系起来：折纸转换的可控性和形状的视觉意象。此外，视觉意象的生动程度与所有四个认知因素都有关。我们提出了这种折纸认知模型，它考虑了折纸意象、心理转换和视觉意象生动程度之间的关键关系。
