Simulation of Metaphorical Actions and Discourse Comprehension

摘要: Recent findings indicate that comprehension of sentences describing metaphorical abstract concepts arises from simulation motor experience the described event. Two experiments investigated whether action influences “offline” at a more global discourse level. Participants read text protagonist making forward movements while their body movement (Experiment 1) and posture 2) were manipulated to be either prepared or not for processing action-congruent information. “Offline” explicit implicit measured on accuracy questions time it took participants recognize words as well judge correct incorrect with respect content text. Results revealed affected recognition (Experiments 1 judgment times regarding measures, regarding...