Connell Louise
Cognition & Communication Research Centre, Division of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
Cognition. 2007 Mar;102(3):476-85. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.009. Epub 2006 Apr 17.
Embodied theories of cognition hold that mentally representing something red engages the neural subsystems that respond to environmental perception of that colour. This paper examines whether implicit perceptual information on object colour is represented during sentence comprehension even though doing so does not necessarily facilitate task performance. After reading a sentence that implied a particular colour for a given object, participants were presented with a picture of the object that either matched or mismatched the implied colour. When asked if the pictured object was mentioned in the preceding sentence, people's responses were faster when the colours mismatched than when they matched, suggesting that object colour is represented differently to other object properties such as shape and orientation. A distinction between stable and unstable embodied representations is proposed to allow embodied theories to account for these findings.
认知的具身理论认为，对红色事物进行心理表征会激活那些对该颜色的环境感知做出反应的神经子系统。本文探讨了在句子理解过程中，即使这样做不一定有助于任务表现，关于物体颜色的内隐感知信息是否会被表征。在阅读一个暗示给定物体特定颜色的句子后，向参与者展示该物体的图片，图片颜色与暗示颜色要么匹配要么不匹配。当被问及图片中的物体是否在前一句中被提及时，颜色不匹配时人们的反应比颜色匹配时更快，这表明物体颜色与形状和方向等其他物体属性的表征方式不同。本文提出了稳定和不稳定具身表征之间的区别，以使具身理论能够解释这些发现。
