It was hypothesized that spatial information was processed in dependence on the possible actions in a visual scene. The motor representations result from a viewpoint of observers independent of the real viewing position. The experiments reported here examine whether the different subjective positions mediate people's reconstruction of the spatial information they read about. To provide evidence the account that memory for spatial information implied an existing motor representation, different viewing positions are inducted in two experiments. The participants had to read two different narratives where the same spatial locations where conserved. In the first case it was described as an escape and in the second one it was described as a situation of relaxation. We proposed that these narratives generated the different potential sequences of actions. In the second trial the participants were asked to recall the narratives and to choose one of the 9 drawings that illustrated each of the narratives. The drawings were designed to reflect the different points of view according to a multiplication of the 3 horizontal and the 3 vertical positions. Configural-frequency analysis (KFA Package, 1994) revealed the strong relations between subjective viewers' positions based on implicit actions and spatial representations.

The research is supported by Russian Fund of Fundamental Reseaches, grant N00-06-80145.

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