Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing

Kalénine, Solène; Bonthoux, Françoise

doi:10.3758/pbr.15.3.667

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“…For example 'keylock' , 'feet -slippers' are thematically related in spatial as well as functional aspects, compared to 'car -road' which has only spatial attribute or 'tumbler -plate' which has mainly temporal attribute. Similar results were found in previous studies where participants made more thematic choices, when thematic relationship involved a direct, functional interaction than when it did not [34,35].…”

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“…Hence, the visual perspective of something, such as a picture or object, is actually an experience of perception, action, and introspection [33]. The results of the study are in consonance with the observations made by earlier studies who reported that functional relations, which play an important role in thematic conceptual relations, were particularly relevant for physically manipulable object concepts [34,36]. They suggested that functionally interactive pairs are defined by their real-world physical actions and spatial relationships (i.e., manipulability) than non interactive pairs.…”

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“…In this sense, a visual experience (e.g., visual presentation of an object or picture) induces a sensorimotor experience as well [33]. Further, functional relations which played an important role in thematic conceptual relations were found to be particularly relevant for physically manipulable object concepts [34]. They reported that children and adults categorize thematic relationships faster for manipulable objects (e.g., an orange) than nonmanipulable objects (e.g., a bus).…”

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Assessment of Thematic Relations in 2-4 Years Normally Developing Children

Shylaja¹,

Manjula²

2016

Commun Disord Deaf Stud Hearing Aids

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Objective: Children organize their conceptual knowledge in different ways such as thematic and taxonomic organization. When concepts are linked by cross-categorical relations, they are said to be thematically related. This study attempts to investigate the development of different types of thematic relations such as spatial-temporalfunctional relations and causal relations in Kannada speaking typical children. Method:A total of 216 typically developing children between age group of 2-4 years speaking Kannada were selected for the study. Match to sample task using picture stimuli were administered to assess spatial-temporalfunctional relations and causal types of thematic relations. The match to sample task included one standard and four choice responses, one of which was a thematic match (either spatial and/or temporal and/or functionally related match or a causal match depending on the test carried out) to the test stimuli. Responses of the children were analyzed using a four point rating scale. Results:Results revealed that appreciation of spatial-temporal-functional and causal types of thematic relations emerges in children as young as 2 years of age and broadens with increase in age to 3-4 years. Gender effect was not significant in both these tasks. There was no significant difference found in the performance of children between test for spatial-temporal-functional relations and test for causal relations. Conclusion:The results of present study demonstrate that thematic relations in specific spatial-temporalfunctional relations and causal relations show a similar pattern of developmental trend in preschool children of 2-4 years of age. In addition they are found to be one of the important types of organizational strategies used by 2-4 years children to conceptual world knowledge and thus play a key role in language acquisition.

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Assessment of Thematic Relations in 2-4 Years Normally Developing Children

Shylaja¹,

Manjula²

2016

Commun Disord Deaf Stud Hearing Aids

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“…In other words, the movement patterns of living things are perceptually (and functionally) distinct from the movement patterns of nonliving things, a notion that is echoed both in neuropsychological and neuroanatomical models of adult semantic processing (e.g., Beauchamp, Lee, Haxby & Martin, 2002;Tyler, Moss, Durrant-Peatfield & Levy, 2000). In fact, in a recent study using a picture-matching task, both children and adults demonstrated faster reaction times when identifying "contextual/functional" relationships for manipulable objects, whereas reaction times were faster when identifying "perceptual similarity-based" relations for nonmanipulables, particularly those from living categories (Kalénine & Bonthoux, 2008).…”

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“…A large literature has addressed how children first group items: taxonomically (e.g., apple-banana) or thematically (e.g., apple-pie). Several researchers have pointed out that taxonomic organization might be based more on perceptual input, while thematic organization might be based more on conceptual input (e.g., Kalénine & Bonthoux, 2008). Organization and enrichment of one's semantic network likely happens through learning based on both perceptual and conceptual organization schemes from within the first year of life.…”

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A lifespan perspective on semantic processing of concrete concepts: does a sensory/motor model have the potential to bridge the gap?

Antonucci

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2011

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Priming words with pictures: Neural correlates of semantic associations in a cross‐modal priming task using fMRI

Kircher¹,

Saß²,

Sachs³

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In our everyday life we process information from different modalities simultaneously with great ease. With the current study we had the following goals: to detect the neural correlates of (1) automatic semantic processing of associates and (2) to investigate the influence of different visual modalities on semantic processing. Stimuli were presented with a short SOA (350 ms) as subjects performed a lexical decision task. To minimize the variance and increase homogeneity within our sample, only male subjects were measured. Three experimental conditions were compared while brain activation was measured with a 3 T fMRI scanner: related word-pairs (e.g., frame-picture), unrelated word-pairs (e.g., frame-car) as well as word-nonword pairs (e.g., frame-fubber). They were presented uni- (word-word) and cross-modally (picture-word). Behavioral data revealed a priming effect for cross-modal and unimodal word-pairs. On a neural level, the unimodal condition revealed response suppression in bilateral fronto-parietal regions. Cross-modal priming led to response suppression within the right inferior frontal gyrus. Common areas of deactivation for both modalities were found in bilateral fronto-tempo-parietal regions. These results suggest that the processing of semantic associations presented in different modalities lead to modality-specific activation caused by early access routes. However, common activation for both modalities refers to a common neural network for semantic processing suggesting amodal processing.

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Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing

Cited by 43 publications

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Assessment of Thematic Relations in 2-4 Years Normally Developing Children

Assessment of Thematic Relations in 2-4 Years Normally Developing Children

A lifespan perspective on semantic processing of concrete concepts: does a sensory/motor model have the potential to bridge the gap?

Priming words with pictures: Neural correlates of semantic associations in a cross‐modal priming task using fMRI

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