Language Comprehenders Mentally Represent the Shapes of Objects

We examined the prediction that people activate perceptual symbols during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences describing an animal or object in a certain location. The shape of the object or animal changed as a junction of its location (e.g., eagle in the sky, eagle in a nest). However,...

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Published in:Psychological science 2002-03, Vol.13 (2), p.168-171
Main Authors: Zwaan, Rolf A., Stanfield, Robert A., Yaxley, Richard H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Association Learning
Attention
Bird nesting
Cognition
Comprehension
Discrimination Learning
Eagles
Eggs
Female
Humans
Information Processing
Language
Language comprehension
Male
Mental Recall
Nails
Object pronouns
Orientation
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perception
Psychology
Psychophysics
Reaction Time
Reading
Reading Comprehension
Research Reports
Semantic Processing
Sensory perception
Sentences
Speech perception
Symbols
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