Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing

Dantzig, Saskia van; Pecher, Diane; Zeelenberg, René; Barsalou, Lawrence W.

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“…By highlighting the contrast between internal and external perspectives, the present findings extend previous work on the role of perspective in language comprehension, which explored how people construct different perspectives when understanding external events (Borghi et al, 2004;Brunyé et al, 2009;Horton & Rapp, 2003;Morrow et al, 1987;Spivey & Geng, 2001;Wu & Barsalou, 2009). Moreover, by introducing an internal perspective, the present findings extend previous work on switching effects that has mainly focused on the classic sensory modalities (Marques, 2006;Pecher et al, 2003;van Dantzig et al, 2008; but see Vermeulen et al, 2007).…”

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“…Previous research has found switching costs when properties of verified concepts come from different sensory modalities, rather than from the same sensory modality (Marques, 2006;Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou, 2003;van Dantzig, Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou, 2008;Vermeulen, Niedenthal, & Luminet, 2007). For instance, Pecher et al demonstrated that people verify that an apple is shiny more quickly after verifying that a flag is striped than after verifying that an airplane is noisy.…”

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Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and nonemotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus

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Mental states-such as thinking, remembering, or feeling angry, happy, or dizzy-have a clear internal component. We feel a certain way when we are in these states. These internal experiences may be simulated when people understand conceptual references to mental states. However, mental states can also be described from an "external" perspective, for example when referring to "smiling." In those cases, simulation of visible outside features may be more relevant for understanding. In a switching costs paradigm, we presented semantically unrelated sentences describing emotional and nonemotional mental states while manipulating their internal or external focus. The results show that switching costs occur when participants shift between sentences with an internal and an external focus. This suggests that different forms of simulation underlie understanding these sentences. In addition, these effects occurred for emotional and nonemotional mental states, suggesting that they are grounded in a similar way-through the process of simulation.

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“…This kind of evidence is problematic because the presence of switching costs in conceptual tasks involving different modalities has been used to support the grounded view (e.g., [13][14][15]). For instance, Pecher, Zeelenberg and Barsalou have shown switching effects during a verification task, in which participants are asked whether or not a particular property is true about a given category (e.g., CAT-has a head).…”

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A Defense of an Amodal Number System

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2018

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It has been argued that the approximate number system (ANS) constitutes a problem for the grounded approach to cognition because it implies that some conceptual tasks are performed by non-perceptual systems. The ANS is considered non-perceptual mainly because it processes stimuli from different modalities. Jones (2015) has recently argued that this system has many features (such as being modular) which are characteristic of sensory systems. Additionally, he affirms that traditional sensory systems also process inputs from different modalities. This suggests that the ANS is a perceptual system and therefore it is not problematic for the grounded view. In this paper, I defend the amodal approach to the ANS against these two arguments. In the first place, perceptual systems do not possess the properties attributed to the ANS and therefore these properties do not imply that the ANS is perceptual. In the second place, I will propose that a sensory system only needs to be dedicated to process modality-specific information, which is consistent with responding to inputs from different modalities. I argue that the cross-modal responses exhibited by traditional sensory systems are consistent with modality-specific information whereas some responses exhibited by the ANS are not.

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“…Recent embodied and simulation based approaches to language comprehension predict that comprehension of language triggers mental simulation of events and objects as described in the language [1][2][3][4]. According to theories of embodied cognition [5], such simulation depends upon the mental representations that were formed during comprehenders' actual perceptual experience and interaction with the environment.…”

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Simulating Motion in Figurative Language Comprehension

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Mishra²

2010

Open Neuroimag J

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Abstract:In this visual world eye tracking study we explored simulation of fictive motion during language comprehension in figurative sentences in Hindi. Eye movement measures suggest that language comprehenders gaze longer at visual scenes on hearing fictive motion sentences compared to their literal counterparts. The results support previous findings in English and provide cross linguistic evidence for the simulation and embodied views of language processing. We discuss the findings in the light of neuroimaging models and language vision interaction.

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Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing

Cited by 167 publications

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Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and nonemotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus

Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and nonemotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus

A Defense of an Amodal Number System

Simulating Motion in Figurative Language Comprehension

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