Representing Object Colour in Language Comprehension

Autor/in	Connell, Louise
Titel	Representing Object Colour in Language Comprehension
Quelle	In: Cognition, 102 (2007) 3, S.476-485 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.009
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Sentences; Language Acquisition; Color; Visual Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract	Embodied theories of cognition hold that mentally representing something "red" engages the neural subsystems that respond to environmental perception of that colour. This paper examines whether implicit perceptual information on object colour is represented during sentence comprehension even though doing so does not necessarily facilitate task performance. After reading a sentence that implied a particular colour for a given object, participants were presented with a picture of the object that either matched or mismatched the implied colour. When asked if the pictured object was mentioned in the preceding sentence, people's responses were faster when the colours "mismatched" than when they "matched," suggesting that object colour is represented differently to other object properties such as shape and orientation. A distinction between stable and unstable embodied representations is proposed to allow embodied theories to account for these findings. (Author).
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