Feature activation during word recognition: action, visual, and associative-semantic priming effects.

ABSTRACT: Embodied theories of language postulate that language meaning is stored in modality-specific brain areas generally involved in perception and action in the real world. However, the temporal dynamics of the interaction between modality-specific information and lexical-semantic processing remain unclear. We investigated the relative timing at which two types of modality-specific information (action-based and visual-form information) contribute to lexical-semantic comprehension. To this end, we applied a behavioral priming paradigm in which prime and target words were related with respect to (1) action features, (2) visual features, or (3) semantically associative information. Using a Go/No-Go lexical decision task, priming effects were measured across four different inter-stimulus intervals

SUBMITTER: Lam KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4444743 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature