Pavan, Andrea and Baggio, Giosue (2013) Linguistic Representations of Motion Do Not Depend on the Visual Motion System. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 24 (2). pp. 181-188. ISSN 0956-7976, 1467-9280
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Embodied semantics proposes that constructing the meaning of motion verb phrases relies on representations of motion in sensory cortex. However, the data reported by earlier studies as evidence for this claim are also explained by a symbolic-semantics view proposing interactions between dissociable systems. In the experiments reported here, participants were visually adapted to real and implied leftward or rightward motion, which produced a motion aftereffect opposite to the direction of the adapting stimulus. Participants then decided whether a directionally ambiguous or a leftward-or rightward-directional verb phrase implied leftward or rightward motion. Because the visual system is engaged in the motion aftereffect, embodied semantics predicts that responses in the motion-aftereffect direction (opposite to the direction of the adapting stimulus) are facilitated, whereas symbolic semantics predicts response facilitation in the direction of the adapting stimulus (opposite to the direction of the motion aftereffect). We found response facilitation in the direction of real-and implied-motion adapting stimuli in ambiguous and directional verb phrases. These results suggest that visual and linguistic representations of motion can be dissociated.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; ADAPTATION; language; vision |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2020 08:50 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2020 08:50 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17177 |
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