Words and Worlds Both: Dynamic Effects of Distributional and Sensorimotor Information in Semantic Processing.

ABSTRACT: An important issue in the semantic memory literature concerns the relative importance of experience-based sensorimotor versus language corpus-based distributional information in conceptual representations. To explore how each contributes to behavioral and neural responses on a conceptual task, EEG and RTs were recorded as healthy young adults viewed terms for concepts (e.g., "APPLE") followed by properties (e.g., "red") and pressed a button to indicate whether the property is true or false for the concept. Next, we constructed a series of mixed effects models of response times (RTs) and single-trial electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to the property words. Distributional models predicted data using semantic distance measures (e.g., between "APPLE" and "red") derived from language corpus-

SUBMITTER: Vinaya H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12768550 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature