Early Analogical Extensions: An ERP Study on Preschoolers' Semantic Approximations

Autor: Lucas Raynal, Clément Evelyne, Pia Rämä, Emmanuel Sander, Louise Goyet
Přispěvatelé: Centre Neurosciences intégratives et Cognition (INCC - UMR 8002), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire Paragraphe (PARAGRAPHE), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Fonctionnement et Dysfonctionnement Cognitifs : Les âges de la vie (DysCo), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Goyet, Louise
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43
43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021, Virtual meeting, France
43rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
43rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Jun 2021, Vienne (virtual), Austria
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Popis: International audience; This study investigates whether the ERPs of 4-years-olds in response to verbal overextensions reflect the encoding of actions through abstract categories. Participants were presented with images of actions (e.g. peeling an orange) while hearing a sentence containing a conventional verb (e.g. peeling), an approximative verb (e.g. undressing), a superficially related verb (e.g. pressing) or a pseudoverb (e.g. rauging). The N400 for approximative verbs significantly differed from the pseudoverb condition, but not from the conventional verb condition. In contrast, the N400 for superficially related verbs was significantly greater than for conventional verbs, but no significant difference was found with the pseudoverb condition. These results confirm our hypothesis that encoding mainly focuses on general categories (e.g. taking of an envelope). The implications of the findings are discussed regarding the conceptual organization of preschoolers and their analogical abilities.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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