Up and down, front and back. Movement and meaning in the vertical and sagittal axes.

Autor/inn/en	Koch, Sabine C.; Glawe, Stefanie; Holt, Daniel V.
Titel	Up and down, front and back. Movement and meaning in the vertical and sagittal axes.
Quelle	In: Social psychology, 42 (2011) 3, S. 214-224Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1864-9335; 2151-2590
DOI	10.1027/1864-9335/a000065
Schlagwörter	Wahrnehmung; Wort; Räumliche Orientierung; Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit; Bedeutung; Bewegungswahrnehmung; Effekt
Abstract	The present study shows how directional movement is related to meaning. The authors measured the influence of congruent vs incongruent movement - meaning pairings on reaction times in a Stroop-type categorization task. Movement-related words corresponding to the vertical up-down axis (e.g., happiness - grief; successful; to sink) and to the sagittal front-back axis (e.g., tomorrow-yesterday; decisive; to retreat) were coupled with actual movement in the vertical and sagittal axes. The color of the word appearing on a computer screen indicated the movement direction, creating congruent and incongruent movement-meaning trials. Participants reacted faster on congruent trials (e.g., happy-upward movement; decisive-forward movement) than on incongruent trials (e.g., happy-downward movement; decisive-backward movement). Results supported the hypothesized movement-meaning relation for both the vertical and the sagittal dimensions. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2012/3