期刊
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
卷 132, 期 -, 页码 14-21出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.02.002
关键词
Embodiment; Bilingualism; Second-language; Motor responses; Spatial processing; Emotion
资金
- Margarete-von-Wrangell Fellowship (European Social Fund)
- Margarete-von-Wrangell Fellowship (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wurttemberg)
- project of Barbara Kaup (German Research Foundation) [SFB833/B4]
Converging evidence suggests that understanding our first-language (L1) results in reactivation of experiential sensorimotor traces in the brain. Surprisingly, little is known regarding the involvement of these processes during second-language (L2) processing. Participants saw L1 or L2 words referring to entities with a typical location (e.g., star, mole) (Experiment 1 & 2) or to an emotion (e.g., happy, sad) (Experiment 3). Participants responded to the words' ink color with an upward or downward arm movement. Despite word meaning being fully task-irrelevant, L2 automatically activated motor responses similar to L1 even when L2 was acquired rather late in life (age >11). Specifically, words such as star facilitated upward, and words such as root facilitated downward responses. Additionally, words referring to positive emotions facilitated upward, and words referring to negative emotions facilitated downward responses. In summary our study suggests that reactivation of experiential traces is not limited to L1 processing. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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