Dumitru Magda L
Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, 16 University Avenue, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia,
Cogn Process. 2014 Aug;15(3):397-403. doi: 10.1007/s10339-014-0604-6. Epub 2014 Mar 5.
According to theories of embodied cognition, visual stimuli can either facilitate or impede the retrieval of language meaning as multimodal perceptual simulations. Here, we introduced a novel experimental paradigm to test the hypothesis that moving stimuli (i.e., motion-defined objects) facilitate coordination comprehension. Participants read coordination descriptions and saw two colored lines that matched the descriptions. Two figures then selected the lines either by moving jointly along them or by standing each on a different line. Moving selections yielded high validation scores in conjunction trials and low validation scores in disjunction trials, whereas stationary selections yielded mitigated scores. The results demonstrate that jointly moving stimuli, which are effective cues to visual grouping, help retrieve and validate conjunction simulations composed of dependent stimuli as well as retrieve and invalidate disjunction simulations composed of independent stimuli. These findings challenge accounts based on truth-condition satisfaction that stimuli properties cannot affect language comprehension and thereby reasoning.
根据具身认知理论，视觉刺激作为多模态感知模拟，既可以促进也可以阻碍语言意义的检索。在此，我们引入了一种新颖的实验范式来检验这一假设，即移动刺激（即运动定义的物体）有助于协调理解。参与者阅读协调描述并看到两条与描述匹配的彩色线条。然后有两个图形通过沿着线条共同移动或分别站在不同的线条上来选择线条。在联合试验中，移动选择产生高验证分数，在分离试验中产生低验证分数，而静止选择产生的分数则有所减轻。结果表明，共同移动的刺激作为视觉分组的有效线索，有助于检索和验证由相关刺激组成的联合模拟，以及检索和否定由独立刺激组成的分离模拟。这些发现挑战了基于真值条件满足的观点，即刺激属性不会影响语言理解，从而也不会影响推理。
