Performance of Language-Coordinated Collective Systems: A Study of Wine Recognition and Description.

ABSTRACT: Most of our perceptions of and engagements with the world are shaped by our immersion in social interactions, cultural traditions, tools and linguistic categories. In this study we experimentally investigate the impact of two types of language-based coordination on the recognition and description of complex sensory stimuli: that of red wine. Participants were asked to taste, remember and successively recognize samples of wines within a larger set in a two-by-two experimental design: (1) either individually or in pairs, and (2) with or without the support of a sommelier card-a cultural linguistic tool designed for wine description. Both effectiveness of recognition and the kinds of errors in the four conditions were analyzed. While our experimental manipulations did not impact recognition a

SUBMITTER: Zubek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037268 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature