Embodied Knowledge

Pecher, Diane; Zeelenberg, René

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“…Thus, while detecting the color of a traffic light in a cross-road mainly involves the visual modality, perceiving the melody of a violin during a classic concert mainly involves the auditory modality. According to grounded theories of knowledge ( Barsalou, 2008 ; for a recent discussion see Borghi and Caruana, 2015 ; Pecher and Zeelenberg, 2015 ), sensory information is also active when we process the concepts TRAFFIC LIGHT and VIOLIN 1 . In other words, processing concepts would imply a re-enactment of previously recorded and integrated perceptual information concerning the objects or entities they refer to.…”

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The modality-switch effect: visually and aurally presented prime sentences activate our senses

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Verifying different sensory modality properties for concepts results in a processing cost known as the modality-switch effect. It has been argued that this cognitive cost is the result of a perceptual simulation. This paper extends this argument and reports an experiment investigating whether the effect is the result of an activation of sensory information which can also be triggered by perceptual linguistically described stimuli. Participants were first exposed to a prime sentence describing a light or a sound’s perceptual property (e.g., “The light is flickering”, “The sound is echoing”), then required to perform a property-verification task on a target sentence (e.g., “Butter is yellowish”, “Leaves rustle”). The content modalities of the prime and target sentences could be compatible (i.e., in the same modality: e.g., visual–visual) or not (i.e., in different modalities). Crucially, we manipulated the stimuli’s presentation modality such that half of the participants was faced with written sentences while the other half was faced with aurally presented sentences. Results show a cost when two different modalities alternate, compared to when the same modality is repeated with both visual and aural stimuli presentations. This result supports the embodied and grounded cognition view which claims that conceptual knowledge is grounded into the perceptual system. Specifically, this evidence suggests that sensory modalities can be pre-activated through the simulation of either read or listened linguistic stimuli describing visual or acoustic perceptual properties.

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“…In the past decades, within the Embodiment approach (Barsalou, 1999;2007;2010;Glenberg & Robertson, 2000;Meteyard et al, 2012;Pecher & Zeelenberg, 2015), researchers were looking for a measure that captures perceptual information more accurately than concreteness. The critical point of the Embodiment theories is that conceptual processing relies on the sensory-motor system (Meteyard et al, 2012;Pecher et al, 2003).…”

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“…The critical point of the Embodiment theories is that conceptual processing relies on the sensory-motor system (Meteyard et al, 2012;Pecher et al, 2003). For example, according to Perceptual symbol systems theory (PSST; Barsalou, 1999;Barsalou, 2007;Pecher & Zeelenberg, 2015), the mental representations of concepts are grounded in the sensory-motor experience with their external referents. Accordingly, concept representations are considered simulations of the previous perceptual experience.…”

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Perceptual richness of words and its role in free and cued recall

Stijačić

Đurđević

2022

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This research aimed to clarify the role of the perceptual richness of words (PR) in the recall tasks. PR was operationalized as the number of sensory modalities through which an object can be perceived. Previously, we found that concepts experienced with many modalities (dog) were recalled more accurately in cued recall than those perceived with few modalities (rainbow) and abstract words. This finding fitted the Perceptual symbol system theory (PSST) and the Dual coding theory (DCT) predictions. We tested the PR effect in both cued (experiment 1- E1) and free recall tasks (experiment 2 – E2) in the present study. With careful stimuli manipulation of context availability and emotional valence and statistical control of arousal and relatedness, made to exclude their influence on recall, we tested alternative explanations of the concreteness effect offered by the relational-distinctiveness hypothesis. The additional perceptual codes improved recall accuracy in the cued recall task (E1), which was in line with the PSST and the DCT. This conclusion is straightforward: two critical groups of concrete words were matched for concreteness and visual perceptual strength. Thus, more accurate recall of concepts experienced with many modalities can be attributed to richer perceptual experience. However, the relational information was essential for recall accuracy in the free recall task (E2), as hypothesized by the relational-distinctiveness hypothesis.

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Chapter 4. Are abstract concepts grounded in bodily mimesis?

Jelec¹

2019

Human Cognitive Processing

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Embodied Knowledge

Cited by 3 publications

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The modality-switch effect: visually and aurally presented prime sentences activate our senses

The modality-switch effect: visually and aurally presented prime sentences activate our senses

Perceptual richness of words and its role in free and cued recall

Chapter 4. Are abstract concepts grounded in bodily mimesis?

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