Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words.
Embodied theories of cognition propose that neural substrates used in experiencing the referent of a word, for example perceiving upward motion, should be engaged in weaker form when that word, for example 'rise', is comprehended [1-3]. This claim has been broadly supported in the motor do...
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| author | Meteyard, L Zokaei, N Bahrami, B Vigliocco, G |
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| description | Embodied theories of cognition propose that neural substrates used in experiencing the referent of a word, for example perceiving upward motion, should be engaged in weaker form when that word, for example 'rise', is comprehended [1-3]. This claim has been broadly supported in the motor domain (for example [4,5]), whilst evidence is supportive, but less clear cut, for perception (for example [6-8]). Motivated by the finding that the perception of irrelevant background motion at near-threshold, but not supra-threshold, levels interferes with task execution [9], we assessed whether interference from near-threshold background motion was modulated by its congruence with the meaning of words (semantic content) when participants completed a lexical decision task (deciding if a string of letters is a real word or not). Reaction times for motion words, such as 'rise' or 'fall', were slower when the direction of visual motion and the 'motion' of the word were incongruent - but only when the visual motion was at near-threshold levels (supporting [9]). When motion was supra-threshold, the distribution of error rates, not reaction times, implicated low-level motion processing in the semantic processing of motion words. As the perception of near-threshold signals is not likely to be influenced by strategies [9], our results support a close contact between semantic information and perceptual systems. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:39e4761d-f39f-42f9-b216-bfd1c62bea5a2022-03-26T13:58:16ZVisual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:39e4761d-f39f-42f9-b216-bfd1c62bea5aEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Meteyard, LZokaei, NBahrami, BVigliocco, GEmbodied theories of cognition propose that neural substrates used in experiencing the referent of a word, for example perceiving upward motion, should be engaged in weaker form when that word, for example 'rise', is comprehended [1-3]. This claim has been broadly supported in the motor domain (for example [4,5]), whilst evidence is supportive, but less clear cut, for perception (for example [6-8]). Motivated by the finding that the perception of irrelevant background motion at near-threshold, but not supra-threshold, levels interferes with task execution [9], we assessed whether interference from near-threshold background motion was modulated by its congruence with the meaning of words (semantic content) when participants completed a lexical decision task (deciding if a string of letters is a real word or not). Reaction times for motion words, such as 'rise' or 'fall', were slower when the direction of visual motion and the 'motion' of the word were incongruent - but only when the visual motion was at near-threshold levels (supporting [9]). When motion was supra-threshold, the distribution of error rates, not reaction times, implicated low-level motion processing in the semantic processing of motion words. As the perception of near-threshold signals is not likely to be influenced by strategies [9], our results support a close contact between semantic information and perceptual systems. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Meteyard, L Zokaei, N Bahrami, B Vigliocco, G Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title | Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title_full | Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title_fullStr | Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title_short | Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. |
| title_sort | visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words |
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