Mental Representation of Normal Subjects About the Sources of Knowledge in Different Semantic Categories and Unique Entities
Mental Representation of Normal Subjects About the Sources of Knowledge in Different Semantic Categories and Unique Entities
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DOI：
10.1037/a0016352
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发表时间：
2009-11-01
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影响因子：
2.4
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Marra, Camillo
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作者：
Gainotti, Guido;Ciaraffa, Francesca;Marra, Camillo
根据“语义知识的感觉-运动模型”，不同类别的知识在不同“知识来源”的表征中所占的权重不同。我们的研究旨在评估这一模型，检查正常受试者给出的主观评价是否证实了不同知识来源在不同生物和人工制品类别以及独特实体（如名人或纪念碑）的表示中所占的不同权重。结果表明，视觉属性被认为是所有生物和非生物类别（以及独特实体）的主要知识来源，但这些“知识来源”的聚类在生物和人工制品类别中是不同的。在生物和独特实体的心理表征中，视觉数据主要与其他感知（听觉、嗅觉、味觉和触觉）属性相关，而在人工制品的情况下，视觉数据则与动作相关的属性和触觉信息相关。
According to the "sensory-motor model of semantic knowledge," different categories of knowledge differ for the weight that different "sources of knowledge" have in their representation. Our study aimed to evaluate this model, checking if subjective evaluations given by normal subjects confirm the different weight that various sources of knowledge have in the representation of different biological and artifact categories and of unique entities, such as famous people or monuments. Results showed that the visual properties are considered as the main source of knowledge for all the living and nonliving categories (as well as for unique entities), but that the clustering of these "sources of knowledge" is different for biological and artifacts categories. Visual data are, indeed, mainly associated with other perceptual (auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactual) attributes in the mental representation of living beings and unique entities, whereas they are associated with action-related properties and tactile information in the case of artifacts.