Perception of Motion Affects Language Processing

Kaschak, Michael P.; Madden, Carol J.; Therriault, David J.; Yaxley, Richard H.; Aveyard, Mark; Zwaan, Rolf A.

doi:10.1037/e537052012-803

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“…That is, linguistic processing may involve the disruption or inhibition of early perceptual systems that are associated with conceptually related representations. Similar interference effects have been observed in several behavioral studies (Richardson et al, 2003;Kaschak et al, 2005Kaschak et al, , 2006. Of particular relevance to the current discussion is the work on verbal overshadowing (Engstler-Schooler, 1990;Fallshore and Schooler, 1995;Schooler and Schooler et al, 1997;Meissner and Brigham, 2001).…”

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The Influence of Language on Perception: Listening to Sentences about Faces Affects the Perception of Faces

Landau¹,

Aziz‐Zadeh²,

Ivry³

2010

J. Neurosci.

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We examined the effect of linguistic comprehension on early perceptual encoding in a series of electrophysiological and behavioral studies on humans. Using the fact that pictures of faces elicit a robust and reliable evoked response that peaks at ϳ170 ms after stimulus onset (N170), we measured the N170 to faces that were preceded by primes that referred to either faces or scenes. When the primes were auditory sentences, the magnitude of the N170 was larger when the face stimuli were preceded by sentences describing faces compared to sentences describing scenes. In contrast, when the primes were visual, the N170 was smaller after visual primes of faces compared to visual primes of scenes. Similar opposing effects of linguistic and visual primes were also observed in a reaction time experiment in which participants judged the gender of faces. These results provide novel evidence of the influence of language on early perceptual processes and suggest a surprising mechanistic description of this interaction: linguistic primes produce content-specific interference on subsequent visual processing. This interference may be a consequence of the natural statistics of language and vision given that linguistic content is generally uncorrelated with the contents of perception.

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The Influence of Language on Perception: Listening to Sentences about Faces Affects the Perception of Faces

Landau¹,

Aziz‐Zadeh²,

Ivry³

2010

J. Neurosci.

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“…There is a growing body of empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that language comprehension involves dynamic perceptual simulations (e.g., Barsalou, 1999;Glenberg & Kaschak, 2003;Kaschak et al, 2005;Zwaan, 2004) that can directly affect visual perception. Dils and Boroditsky (2010), for instance, have shown that people's interpretation of an ambiguous figure e.g., a hawk flying downward vs. a goose flying upward is affected by previously hearing stories that describe physical motion directed upwards or downwards.…”

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Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring

Dumitru

Joergensen

Cruickshank

et al. 2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tLanguage is more than a source of information for accessing higher-order conceptual knowledge. Indeed, language may determine how people perceive and interpret visual stimuli. Visual processing in linguistic contexts, for instance, mirrors language processing and happens incrementally, rather than through variously-oriented fixations over a particular scene. The consequences of this atypical visual processing are yet to be determined. Here, we investigated the integration of visual and linguistic input during a reasoning task. Participants listened to sentences containing conjunctions or disjunctions (Nancy examined an ant and/or a cloud) and looked at visual scenes containing two pictures that either matched or mismatched the nouns. Degree of match between nouns and pictures (referential anchoring) and between their expected and actual spatial positions (spatial anchoring) affected fixations as well as judgments. We conclude that language induces incremental processing of visual scenes, which in turn becomes susceptible to reasoning errors during the language-meaning verification process.

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“…Asking participants to listen to sentences that imply motion while viewing visual displays that instantiate the same direction of motion slows their judgments that the sentences are sensible compared to displays that instantiate different directions of motion (Kaschak, 2005). (Speeded responses to mismatching stimuli are explained by resource competition in matching cases.)…”

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Embodied cognition and linguistic comprehension

Weiskopf

2010

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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Perception of Motion Affects Language Processing

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The Influence of Language on Perception: Listening to Sentences about Faces Affects the Perception of Faces

The Influence of Language on Perception: Listening to Sentences about Faces Affects the Perception of Faces

Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring

Embodied cognition and linguistic comprehension

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