Visual semantic features are activated during the processing of concrete words: event-related potential evidence for perceptual semantic priming

Kellenbach, Marion L.; Wijers, A.A.; Mulder, G.

doi:10.1016/s0926-6410(00)00023-9

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“…According to these ideas, words activate perceptual representations of their referents. Initial evidence supports these ideas (Kellenbach, Wijers, & Mulder, 2000;Stanfield & Zwaan, 2001;Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002). Some words are selfcontained in that they activate perceptual representations of entire objects (e.g., CAR or HOUSE).…”

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Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments

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Yaxley

2003

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments

Zwaan

Yaxley

2003

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

180

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“…Since the sentences in the Shape and Unrelated condition both ended in a contextually anomalous word, we expected a more pronounced N400 in both of these conditions than in the Correct condition (e.g., Federmeier & Kutas, 1999;Kutas & Hillyard, 1980). Importantly, the N400 has also been shown to be sensitive to visual attributes of objects being referred to (Kellenbach et al, 2000). If shape representations are involved in predictions of upcoming meaning in the absence of pictorial information, the N400 amplitude should therefore be attenuated for the Shape condition relative to the Unrelated condition.…”

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“…Furthermore, several studies have observed perceptual priming in lexical decision, where a response to a target word (e.g., ''coin'') is faster when a preceding prime word has a referent with a shape similar to the target word's referent (e.g., ''pizza'') than when the prime word has a referent with a different shape (e.g., ''table''; Moss, McCormick, & Tyler, 1997;Schreuder, Flores d'Arcais, & Glazenborg, 1984; but see Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Raaijmakers, 1998). Kellenbach, Wijers, and Mulder (2000) showed that at the neurophysiological level this shape priming was reflected in the N400, with N400 amplitude being smaller when prime and target had similarly shaped referents than when these were different. Finally, several visual world experiments showed that upon hearing a word such as ''snake'', listeners were more likely to move their eyes to objects with a shape similar to the referent (e.g., a cable) than to objects with a different shape (Dahan & Tanenhaus, 2005;Huettig & Altmann, 2007).…”

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The contents of predictions in sentence comprehension: Activation of the shape of objects before they are referred to

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When comprehending concrete words, listeners and readers can activate specific visual information such as the shape of the words’ referents. In two experiments we examined whether such information can be activated in an anticipatory fashion. In Experiment 1, listeners’ eye movements were tracked while they were listening to sentences that were predictive of a specific critical word (e.g., “moon” in “In 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon”). 500 ms before the acoustic onset of the critical word, participants were shown four-object displays featuring three unrelated distractor objects and a critical object, which was either the target object (e.g., moon), an object with a similar shape (e.g., tomato), or an unrelated control object (e.g., rice). In a time window before shape information from the spoken target word could be retrieved, participants already tended to fixate both the target and the shape competitors more often than they fixated the control objects, indicating that they had anticipatorily activated the shape of the upcoming word's referent. This was confirmed in Experiment 2, which was an ERP experiment without picture displays. Participants listened to the same lead-in sentences as in Experiment 1. The sentence-final words corresponded to the predictable target, the shape competitor, or the unrelated control object (yielding, for instance, “In 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon/tomato/rice”). N400 amplitude in response to the final words was significantly attenuated in the shape-related compared to the unrelated condition. Taken together, these results suggest that listeners can activate perceptual attributes of objects before they are referred to in an utterance

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“…However, semantic bias is an intrinsic part of visual similarity processing. Targeted electrophysiological studies using words have shown shape-based visual semantic features are sufficient to produce RS (e.g., coin-button; Kellenbach et al 2000). This suggests that, due to stored visual knowledge, visual features may be inextricably related to categorical groups.…”

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