The development of dynamic perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension
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- Based on an embodied account of language comprehension, this study investigated the dynamic characteristics of children and adults’ perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension, using a novel paradigm to assess the perceptual simulation of objects moving up and down a vertical axis. The participants comprised adults (N = 40) and 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children (N = 116). After listening in experimental trials to sentences implying that objects moved upward or downward, the participants were shown pictures and had to decide as quicklyBased on an embodied account of language comprehension, this study investigated the dynamic characteristics of children and adults’ perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension, using a novel paradigm to assess the perceptual simulation of objects moving up and down a vertical axis. The participants comprised adults (N = 40) and 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children (N = 116). After listening in experimental trials to sentences implying that objects moved upward or downward, the participants were shown pictures and had to decide as quickly as possible whether the objects depicted had been mentioned in the sentences. The target pictures moved either up or down and then stopped in the middle of the screen. All age groups’ reaction times were found to be shorter when the objects moved in the directions that the sentences implied. Age exerted no developmental effect on reaction times. The findings suggest that dynamic perceptual simulations are fundamental to language comprehension in text recipients aged 6 and older.…
Author: | Juliane E. K. Hauf, Gerhild Nieding, Benedikt T. SegerORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-283665 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Cognitive Processing |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pagenumber: | 197-208 |
Source: | Cognitive Processing (2020) 21:2, 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-00959-7 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-00959-7 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32086663 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | adults; children; dynamic perceptual simulation;; embodied cognition; sentence comprehension |
Release Date: | 2024/06/18 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |