Psychology Department, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL)and Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, BelgiumU.F.R. Psychologie, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France and CNRS.
Cogn Sci. 2007 Feb;31(1):183-92. doi: 10.1080/03640210709336990.
Recent models of the conceptual system hold that concepts are grounded in simulations of actual experiences with instances of those concepts in sensory-motor systems (e.g., Barsalou, 1999, 2003; Solomon & Barsalou, 2001). Studies supportive of such a viewhave shown that verifying a property of a concept in one modality, and then switching to verify a property of a different concept in a different modality generates temporal processing costs similar to the cost of switching modalities in perception. In addition to non-emotional concepts, the present experiment investigated switching costs in verifying properties of positive and negative (emotional) concepts. Properties of emotional concepts were taken from vision, audition, and the affective system. Parallel to switching costs in neutral concepts, the study showed that for positive and negative concepts, verifying properties from different modalities produced processing costs such that reaction times were longer and error rates were higher. Importantly, this effect was observed when switching from the affective system to sensory modalities, and vice-versa. These results support the embodied cognition view of emotion in humans.
最近的概念系统模型认为，概念是基于对感官-运动系统中这些概念实例的实际经验的模拟（例如，Barsalou，1999 年，2003 年；Solomon 和 Barsalou，2001 年）。支持这种观点的研究表明，在一种模态中验证一个概念的一个属性，然后切换到另一种模态中验证一个不同概念的一个不同属性，会产生类似于在感知中切换模态的时间处理成本。除了非情感概念，本实验还研究了验证积极和消极（情感）概念属性时的切换成本。情感概念的属性取自视觉、听觉和情感系统。与中性概念的切换成本类似，研究表明，对于积极和消极的概念，从不同模态验证属性会产生处理成本，从而导致反应时间延长和错误率升高。重要的是，当从情感系统切换到感觉模态，反之亦然时，观察到了这种效应。这些结果支持了人类情感的具身认知观点。
