Relative Embodiment of Japanese Verbs
| Autor: | Naoto Ota, Masaya Mochizuki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Transitive relation
Movement (music) 05 social sciences Meaning (non-linguistic) 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Word meaning Lexical decision task 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences English verbs Affect (linguistics) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Psychological Studies. 12:1 |
| ISSN: | 1918-722X 1918-7211 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/ijps.v12n3p1 |
| Popis: | Studies examining visual word recognition have revealed that sensorimotor information is associated with the meaning of and influences the processing of words. In this study, we collected ratings of relative embodiment, which reflects how much physical movement is involved in a word meaning, for 219 Japanese transitive verbs. We then investigated how the ratings affect visual word recognition, using three different tasks: a word-naming task, a lexical decision task, and a syntactic classification task. We found that reaction times were faster and correct rates were higher (in the lexical decision task) for words with higher relative embodiment ratings than for those with lower ratings. These findings indicate that relative embodiment affects processing of Japanese verbs as well as of English verbs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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