Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension
| Autor: | Saskia van Dantzig, Jasper G. Wijnen, Diane Pecher, Inge Boot, Thomas W. Schubert, Steffen R. Giessner, Kiki Zanolie |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, ASCoR (FMG) |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Visual perception Adolescent Concept Formation Cognitive Neuroscience Spatial ability Poison control Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Vocabulary Cognition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Image schema Concept learning Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Attention Evoked Potentials Cerebral Cortex Cognitive science Electroencephalography Visual spatial attention Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Embodied cognition Space Perception Power structure Imagination Metaphor Female Psychology Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Brain and Cognition, 78(1), 50-58. Academic Press Brain and Cognition, 78(1), 50-58. Academic Press Inc. |
| ISSN: | 0278-2626 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.006 |
| Popis: | Thinking about the abstract concept power may automatically activate the spatial up-down image schema (powerful up; powerless down) and consequently direct spatial attention to the image schema-congruent location. Participants indicated whether a word represented a powerful or powerless person (e.g. ‘king’ or ‘servant’). Following each decision, they identified a target at the top or bottom of the visual field. In Experiment 1 participants identified the target faster when their spatial position was congruent with the perceived power of the preceding word than when it was incongruent. In Experiment 2 ERPs showed a higher N1 amplitude for congruent spatial positions. These results support the view that attention is driven to the image schema congruent location of a power word. Thus, power is partially understood in terms of vertical space, which demonstrates that abstract concepts are grounded in sensory-motor processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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