Semantic Equivalence as the Basis for Intermodal Integration

Autor: E.A. Lupenko, O.A. Korolkova
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Экспериментальная психология, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 159-177 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-7593
2311-7036
DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2022150311
Popis: We studied the mechanisms of combining sensory information across different modalities. The results of the experimental study indicate that when comparing objects in different modalities, observers rely not on modal-specific characteristics, but on general semantic content. Similar results were obtained for two types of comparison: verbal (the words denoting a particular emotion were compared with pictures of emotions) and non-verbal, where pictures of emotions and emotional faces were the objects of comparison. In addition, the data of the conducted study indicate that the semantic content is successfully extracted both during a sufficiently long stimuli presentation (2 s) and when solving a near-threshold problem (reducing the exposure time to 30 ms, as well as to 30 ms with forward mask), i.e. in the absence of time for the formation of a representation, which indicates the presence of early semantic information processing. Importantly, reducing the exposure time to near-threshold values in some cases leads to a more efficient comparison of objects. We suggest that the same cognitive mechanism underlies the comparison and integration of heterogeneous objects of any modality.
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