TY - JOUR
T1 - The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions
AU - Khatin-Zadeh, Omid
AU - Farina, Mirko
AU - Yazdani-Fazlabadi, Babak
AU - Hu, Jiehui
AU - Trumpower, David
AU - Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
AU - Farsani, Danyal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - The role of gestural schematization in enhancing thinking processes has been the subject of a large body of works. In this process, contextually unimportant or irrelevant information related to a concept (or a system of concepts) is deleted or ignored, while relevant spatial information is maintained. This process is a special type of inhibition, which is one of the key components of executive functions. In this short paper, it is suggested that gestural schematization is a special type of symbolic schematization, a much more general process through which irrelevant information related to features of a concept (or a system of concepts) is suppressed, while relevant information (spatial and non-spatial) is maintained. Through symbolic schematization, abstract structural similarity between two concepts or between two systems of concepts can be discovered. In this way, an individual’s knowledge about the first situation can be generalized to the second situation. Symbolic schematization is the basis of abstraction, knowledge generalization, and knowledge development. This is particularly the case with abstract mathematical thinking. This proposal offers a picture of cognitive mechanisms through which knowledge of abstract mathematical concepts is created and developed in the mind.
AB - The role of gestural schematization in enhancing thinking processes has been the subject of a large body of works. In this process, contextually unimportant or irrelevant information related to a concept (or a system of concepts) is deleted or ignored, while relevant spatial information is maintained. This process is a special type of inhibition, which is one of the key components of executive functions. In this short paper, it is suggested that gestural schematization is a special type of symbolic schematization, a much more general process through which irrelevant information related to features of a concept (or a system of concepts) is suppressed, while relevant information (spatial and non-spatial) is maintained. Through symbolic schematization, abstract structural similarity between two concepts or between two systems of concepts can be discovered. In this way, an individual’s knowledge about the first situation can be generalized to the second situation. Symbolic schematization is the basis of abstraction, knowledge generalization, and knowledge development. This is particularly the case with abstract mathematical thinking. This proposal offers a picture of cognitive mechanisms through which knowledge of abstract mathematical concepts is created and developed in the mind.
KW - Executive functions
KW - Gestural schematization
KW - Gesture
KW - Suppression
KW - Symbolic schematization
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U2 - 10.1007/s12124-022-09742-z
DO - 10.1007/s12124-022-09742-z
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 36526878
AN - SCOPUS:85144119119
SN - 1932-4502
VL - 57
SP - 950
EP - 959
JO - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
JF - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
IS - 3
ER -