Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming

Kiefer, Markus; Adams, Sarah; Zovko, Monika

doi:10.5709/acp-0102-4

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“…However, there is growing evidence that when action verbs are perceived, the mobilization of the relevant precentral motor cortices is not completely autonomous and independent of higher-level cognitive influences but is instead susceptible to modulation by the task and context (for a review see Tomasino & Rumiati, 2013; see also Kiefer et al, 2012). Here are some examples.…”

Section: Processing Dynamicsmentioning

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Are the motor features of verb meanings represented in the precentral motor cortices? Yes, but within the context of a flexible, multilevel architecture for conceptual knowledge

Kemmerer

2015

Psychon Bull Rev

126

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One of the most controversial issues in the cognitive neuroscience literature on concepts is whether the motor features of verb meanings are represented in the precentral motor cortices. Much of this debate stems from the fact that the empirical data are mixed with regard to (1) whether action verbs engage the precentral motor cortices in the predicted ways, (2) whether that engagement is automatic, and (3) whether it is essential for comprehension. I argue that the available data can best be accommodated by theoretical models which assume that conceptual knowledge is underpinned by a flexible, multilevel architecture that includes not only low-level modality-specific systems for perception, action, and emotion, but also high-level cross-modal convergence/divergence zones, as well as the statistical cooccurrence patterns of word-forms across discourses. From the perspective of such pluralistic approaches, the motor features of verb meanings are indeed represented in the precentral motor cortices, but their retrieval is modulated by task and context and is not always necessary for word comprehension.

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Section: Processing Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are the motor features of verb meanings represented in the precentral motor cortices? Yes, but within the context of a flexible, multilevel architecture for conceptual knowledge

Kemmerer

2015

Psychon Bull Rev

126

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“…Nevertheless, the results show that only the posture-related words trigger language-action associations. As there are increasing concerns regarding automaticity in various experimental paradigms (Gawronski & Cesario, 2013;Goodhew, McGaw, & Kidd, 2014;Kiefer, Adams, & Zovko, 2012;Lebois, Wilson-Mendenhall, & Barsalou, in press;Moors & De Houwer, 2006), future studies will be needed in order to be able to draw definite conclusions regarding automaticity. For example, the stimulus material should be presented subliminally (e.g., Ansorge, Kiefer, Khalid, Grassl, & König, 2010;Dudschig, de la Vega, De Filippis, & Kaup, 2014) and ideally the response-apparatus should include more than the vertical responses, in order to avoid that the experimental setting triggers specific language-space associations.…”

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confidence: 96%

What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing

2015

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“…Although some information for a concept may be highly entrenched (e.g., feathers for birds), it is still modulated by context. Indeed much recent research suggests that central information in concepts isn't activated automatically across contexts (for reviews, see Gawronski and Cesario 2013;Kiefer et al 2012;Lebois et al 2015; but see Augustinova and Ferrand 2014). For example, in the Stroop task that has long been believed to demonstrate the automatic activation of color features, it turns out that the accessibility of these features varies across contexts.…”

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Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition

Barsalou

2017

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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If a theory of concept composition aspires to psychological plausibility, it may first need to address several preliminary issues associated with naturally occurring human concepts: content variability, multiple representational forms, and pragmatic constraints. Not only do these issues constitute a significant challenge for explaining individual concepts, they pose an even more formidable challenge for explaining concept compositions. How do concepts combine as their content changes, as different representational forms become active, and as pragmatic constraints shape processing? Arguably, concepts are most ubiquitous and important in compositions, relative to when they occur in isolation. Furthermore, entering into compositions may play central roles in producing the changes in content, form, and pragmatic relevance observed for individual concepts. Developing a theory of concept composition that embraces and illuminates these issues would not only constitute a significant contribution to the study of concepts, it would provide insight into the nature of human cognition.The human ability to construct and combine concepts is prolific. On the one hand, people acquire tens of thousands of concepts for diverse categories of settings, agents, objects, actions, mental states, bodily states, properties, relations, and so forth. On the other, people combine these concepts to construct infinite numbers of more complex concepts, as the open-ended phrases, sentences, and texts that humans produce effortlessly and ubiquitously illustrate. Major changes in the brain, the emergence of language, and new capacities for social cognition all probably played central roles in the evolution of these impressive conceptual abilities (e.g.,

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Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming

Cited by 49 publications

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Are the motor features of verb meanings represented in the precentral motor cortices? Yes, but within the context of a flexible, multilevel architecture for conceptual knowledge

Are the motor features of verb meanings represented in the precentral motor cortices? Yes, but within the context of a flexible, multilevel architecture for conceptual knowledge

What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing

Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition

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