Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs Export

@article{citeulike:6072678, abstract = {Previous research has shown that na\_ve participants display a high level of agreement when asked to choose or drawschematic representations, or image schemas, of concrete and abstract verbs [Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2001, Erlbaum, Mawhah, NJ, p. 873]. For example, participants tended to ascribe a horizontal image schema to push, and a vertical image schema to respect. This consistency in offline data is preliminary evidence that language invokes spatial forms of representation. It also provided norms that were used in the present research to investigate the activation of spatial image schemas during online language comprehension. We predicted that if comprehending a verb activates a spatial representation that is extended along a particular horizontal or vertical axis, it will affect other forms of spatial processing along that axis. Participants listened to short sentences while engaged in a visual discrimination task (Experiment 1) and a picture memory task (Experiment 2). In both cases, reaction times showed an interaction between the horizontal/vertical nature of the verb’s image schema, and the horizontal/vertical position of the visual stimuli. We argue that such spatial effects of verb comprehension provide evidence for the perceptual–motor character of linguistic representations. {\copyright} 2003 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. All rights reserved.}, author = {Richardson, Daniel C. and Spivey, Michael J. and Barsalou, Lawrence W. and McRae, Ken}, citeulike-article-id = {6072678}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2705_4}, doi = {10.1207/s15516709cog2705_4}, journal = {Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal}, keywords = {embodiment, phd}, number = {5}, pages = {767--780}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 08:51:42}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Psychology Press}, title = {Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2705_4}, volume = {27}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6072678 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6072678 N2 - Previous research has shown that na_ve participants display a high level of agreement when asked to choose or drawschematic representations, or image schemas, of concrete and abstract verbs [Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2001, Erlbaum, Mawhah, NJ, p. 873]. For example, participants tended to ascribe a horizontal image schema to push, and a vertical image schema to respect. This consistency in offline data is preliminary evidence that language invokes spatial forms of representation. It also provided norms that were used in the present research to investigate the activation of spatial image schemas during online language comprehension. We predicted that if comprehending a verb activates a spatial representation that is extended along a particular horizontal or vertical axis, it will affect other forms of spatial processing along that axis. Participants listened to short sentences while engaged in a visual discrimination task (Experiment 1) and a picture memory task (Experiment 2). In both cases, reaction times showed an interaction between the horizontal/vertical nature of the verb’s image schema, and the horizontal/vertical position of the visual stimuli. We argue that such spatial effects of verb comprehension provide evidence for the perceptual–motor character of linguistic representations. © 2003 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. All rights reserved. IS - 5 JF - Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal EP - 780 TI - Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs PB - Psychology Press VL - 27 SP - 767 KW - embodiment KW - phd AU - Richardson, Daniel AU - Spivey, Michael AU - Barsalou, Lawrence AU - McRae, Ken PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2705_4 ER -