Understanding associative vs. abstract pictorial relations: An ERP study

Zucker, Leemor; Mudrik, Liad

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107127

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“…Consistent with our predictions, both scientific metaphors and conventional metaphors elicited a late negativity partly overlapping in space and time with the LPC ( Arzouan et al, 2007a , b ; Zucker and Mudrik, 2019 ). The higher amplitude of scientific metaphors might be caused by the late inference of scientific metaphors from the daily source domain to the scientific target domain in order to understand the related scientific knowledge ( Tang et al, 2017a , b ).…”

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Bilingual Processing Mechanisms of Scientific Metaphors and Conventional Metaphors: Evidence via a Contrastive Event-Related Potentials Study

Tang

Shen²,

Yang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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To study the different mechanisms of understanding figurative language in a speaker’s native language (L1) and their second language (L2), this study investigated how scientific metaphors in Chinese (L1) and English (L2) are electrophysiologically processed via event-related potential experimentation. Compared with the metaphors from daily life or in literary works, scientific metaphors tend to involve both a more complicated context structure and a distinct knowledge-inferencing process. During the N400 time window (300–500 ms), English scientific metaphors elicited more negative N400s than Chinese ones at the parietal region. In the late positive component (LPC) time window (550–800 ms), English scientific metaphors elicited less positive LPCs than Chinese ones at the parietal region, and larger late negativities encompassing smaller areas of the brain. The findings might indicate that for late unbalanced bilingual speakers, L2 scientific metaphor comprehension requires more effort in information retrieval or access to the non-literal route. Altogether, the possible findings are that non-native and non-dominant language processing involves decreased automaticity of cognitive mechanisms, and decreased sensitivity to the levels of conventionality of metaphoric meanings.

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Bilingual Processing Mechanisms of Scientific Metaphors and Conventional Metaphors: Evidence via a Contrastive Event-Related Potentials Study

Tang

Shen²,

Yang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…This persistent search for a link, which is indicative of our need for coherence, has transcended into the subsequent visual task, resulting in diminished resources available for the task at hand. In other words, when there is a clear associative link between the images, participants approach the visual task with less of a cognitive load (Zucker and Mudrik, 2019) and thus more resources for better performance (Gigerenzer, 2007). In contrast, in the non-associated condition, the participants continued to ruminate, or incubate, even if not consciously, on trying to find a link between two unrelated images.…”

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Our need for associative coherence

Afiki

Bar

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The world around us consists of typical settings manifested as statistical regularities and stored as associations. These associations are beneficial for performance, and we rely on them as a source of stability in our perception of a coherent surrounding. What happens when such associativity is not apparent? We presented pairs of associated images and pairs of non-associated images and compared their corresponding effect on subsequent performance in three different visual perception paradigms: contrast-sensitivity, global vs. local perception, and critical-flicker-fusion. In all three experiments, performance was significantly inferior when preceded by images with no clear associative connection. We propose that these results reflect the need to find coherence in our environment. When such coherence is not easily detected, we seem to persist in seeking for it, which in turn poses a lingering cognitive load that taxes performance even in low-level perception.

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“…Whereas higher‐level integration requires some kind of comparison (i.e. judging the relationship between two or more elements), which has also been described as ‘relational processing’ (Hirschhorn et al, 2021; Zucker & Mudrik, 2019). Examples include the representation of the number ‘5’ formed by comparing ‘3’ and ‘2’, or the concept of similarity/difference formed by comparing two stimuli (e.g.…”

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“…apple and orange are both fruits). It has been argued that relational processing itself is semantic in nature (Hirschhorn et al, 2021; Zucker & Mudrik, 2019), even when the stimuli themselves have no semantic value (i.e. stimuli are neither words or meaningful images).…”

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Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions

Zher-Wen

2023

British J of Psychology

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Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal conditions (i.e. without perceptual awareness), these findings are widely challenged recently. This review evaluates the current evidence for 10 types of subliminal integration that are widely studied: arithmetic processing, object-context integration, multi-word processing, same-different processing, multisensory integration and 5 different types of associative learning. Potential methodological issues concerning awareness measures are also taken into account. It is concluded that while there is currently no reliable evidence for subliminal integration, this does not necessarily refute 'unconscious' integration defined through non-subliminal (e.g. implicit) approaches.

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Understanding associative vs. abstract pictorial relations: An ERP study

Cited by 7 publications

References 111 publications

Bilingual Processing Mechanisms of Scientific Metaphors and Conventional Metaphors: Evidence via a Contrastive Event-Related Potentials Study

Bilingual Processing Mechanisms of Scientific Metaphors and Conventional Metaphors: Evidence via a Contrastive Event-Related Potentials Study

Our need for associative coherence

Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions

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