To call a cloud 'cirrus': sound symbolism in names for categories or items.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the present paper is to experimentally test whether sound symbolism has selective effects on labels with different ranges-of-reference within a simple noun-hierarchy. In two experiments, adult participants learned the make up of two categories of unfamiliar objects ('alien life forms'), and were passively exposed to either category-labels or item-labels, in a learning-by-guessing categorization task. Following category training, participants were tested on their visual discrimination of object pairs. For different groups of participants, the labels were either congruent or incongruent with the objects. In Experiment 1, when trained on items with individual labels, participants were worse (made more errors) at detecting visual object mismatches when trained labels were incongruen

SUBMITTER: Kovic V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5493972 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature