Neurological evidence linguistic processes precede perceptual simulation in conceptual processing.

摘要: There is increasing evidence from response time experiments that language statistics and perceptual simulations both play a role in conceptual processing. In an EEG experiment we compared neural activity cortical regions commonly associated with linguistic processing visual to determine what extent symbolic embodied accounts of cognition applied. Participants were asked the semantic relationship word pairs (e.g., sky – ground) or their iconic (i.e., if presentation pair matched expected physical relationship). A bias was found towards judgment task iconicity task. More importantly, involved activation brain processes. When comparing relative regions, effect sizes for larger than those early trial reverse being true later trial. These results map upon findings other experimental literature provide further concept words relies on simulations, whereby processes precede simulation