Situated conceptualization and semantic processing: effects of emotional experience and context availability in semantic categorization and naming tasks
Situated conceptualization and semantic processing: effects of emotional experience and context availability in semantic categorization and naming tasks
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DOI：
10.3758/s13423-014-0696-0
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Pexman, Penny M.
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作者：
Moffat, Michael;Siakaluk, Paul D.;Pexman, Penny M.
有人提出，许多概念知识是通过情境概念化获得的，这样，外部（例如，代理、对象、事件）和内部（例如，情绪，内省）环境被认为是重要的（Barsalou，2003）。为了评估这一提议，我们描述了两个维度，通过这两个维度可以测量情境概念化，并且这两个维度对于抽象和具体概念应该具有不同的相关性;即情感体验（即，词语唤起情感体验的容易程度; Newcombe，坎贝尔，Siakaluk和Pexman，2012年）和上下文可用性（即，词语唤起其所指对象可能出现的语境的容易程度; Schwanenflugel & Shoben，1983）。本研究考察了这两个维度对词汇语义分类和命名任务中抽象和具体词加工的影响。在VSCT中，情绪体验促进了抽象词的加工，但抑制了具体词的加工，而上下文的可用性促进了这两种类型的词的加工。在命名任务中，抽象的话和具体的话没有被情感经验，上下文的可用性促进响应只有抽象的话。在命名任务中，抽象的话和具体的话被情感经验，情感经验促进只回应抽象的话，而上下文的可用性促进只回应具体的话。这些结果甚至在几个词汇（例如，频率，获取的年龄）和语义（例如，具体性、唤醒、效价）变量。因此，本研究表明，情绪体验和上下文的可用性进入不同方面的情况下的概念化，并作出独特的贡献的表征和处理的抽象和具体的概念。
It has been proposed that much of conceptual knowledge is acquired through situated conceptualization, such that both external (e.g., agents, objects, events) and internal (e.g., emotions, introspections) environments are considered important (Barsalou, 2003). To evaluate this proposal, we characterized two dimensions by which situated conceptualization may be measured and which should have different relevance for abstract and concrete concepts; namely, emotional experience (i.e., the ease with which words evoke emotional experience; Newcombe, Campbell, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2012) and context availability (i.e., the ease with which words evoke contexts in which their referents may appear; Schwanenflugel & Shoben, 1983). We examined the effects of these two dimensions on abstract and concrete word processing in verbal semantic categorization (VSCT) and naming tasks. In the VSCT, emotional experience facilitated processing of abstract words but inhibited processing of concrete words, whereas context availability facilitated processing of both types of words. In the naming task in which abstract words and concrete words were not blocked by emotional experience, context availability facilitated responding to only the abstract words. In the naming task in which abstract words and concrete words were blocked by emotional experience, emotional experience facilitated responding to only the abstract words, whereas context availability facilitated responding to only the concrete words. These results were observed even with several lexical (e.g., frequency, age of acquisition) and semantic (e.g., concreteness, arousal, valence) variables included in the analyses. As such, the present research suggests that emotional experience and context availability tap into different aspects of situated conceptualization and make unique contributions to the representation and processing of abstract and concrete concepts.