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COGNITION
卷 94, 期 3, 页码 B79-B89出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.06.005
关键词
language comprehension; sentence comprehension motion perception; embodied cognition
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-63972] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH063972] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Recently developed accounts of language comprehension propose that sentences are understood by constructing a perceptual simulation of the events being described. These simulations involve the re-activation of patterns of brain activation that were formed during the comprehender's interaction with the world. In two experiments we explored the specificity of the processing mechanisms required to construct simulations during language comprehension. Participants listened to (and made judgments on) sentences that described motion in a particular direction (e.g. The car approached you). They simultaneously viewed dynamic black-and-white stimuli that produced the perception of movement in the same direction as the action specified in the sentence (i.e. towards you) or in the opposite direction as the action specified in the sentence (i.e. away from you). Responses were faster to sentences presented concurrently with a visual stimulus depicting motion in the opposite direction as the action described in the sentence. This suggests that the processing mechanisms recruited to construct simulations during language comprehension are also used during visual perception, and that these mechanisms can be quite specific. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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