Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words
Testing the theory of embodied cognition with subliminal words
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.010
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Koenig, Peter
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作者：
Ansorge, Ulrich;Kiefer, Markus;Koenig, Peter
在本研究中，我们检验了具身认知理论（ECT）。ECT假设在获取单词的含义时进行强制性感觉运动处理。我们通过调查是否不可见（即，潜意识）空间词激活基于其长期和短期意义的反应。对单词的掩蔽用于防止单词可见性和故意阐述单词的语义内容。通过这种方式，掩蔽特别隔离了ECT预测的强制性感觉运动处理。空间潜意识的话会激活反应吗？在实验一中，我们证明了空间一致性效应的无形的话，如果他们之前可见的目标词。在实验2中，我们表明，掩蔽词激活反应的基础上，他们的长期意义。在实验3中，我们证明，掩蔽词也根据其短期反应的意义加工。我们的结论是ECT得到了我们的研究结果的支持，并讨论了我们的结果对语义词处理和掩蔽启动实验的具身理论的影响。(C)2010 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
In the current study, we tested the embodied cognition theory (ECT). The ECT postulates mandatory sensorimotor processing of words when accessing their meaning. We test that prediction by investigating whether invisible (i.e., subliminal) spatial words activate responses based on their long-term and short-term meaning. Masking of the words is used to prevent word visibility and intentional elaboration of the words' semantic content. In this way, masking specifically isolates mandatory sensorimotor processing of words as predicted by the ECT. Do spatial subliminal words activate responses nonetheless? In Experiment 1, we demonstrate a spatial congruence effect of the invisible words if they precede visible target words. In Experiment 2, we show that masked words activate responses based on their long-term meaning. In Experiment 3, we demonstrate that masked words are also processed according to their short-term response meaning. We conclude that the ECT is supported by our findings and discuss implications of our results for embodied theories of semantic word processing and masked priming experiments. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.