Teskey Morgan, Svendsen Kristofer, Bub Daniel N, Masson Michael E J
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2025 Jan;51(1):133-151. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001327. Epub 2024 Feb 22.
Strong versions of the embodied account of language processing propose that comprehension depends on the mental simulation of sensorimotor experiences conveyed by linguistic meaning. Primary support in favor of this view is based on demonstrations of processing advantages for compatibility between an action implied by sentence content and concurrent sensorimotor processing. Although these effects have been reported across a variety of contexts, various attempts to reproduce these results, both through direct replication and conceptual extension, have not been successful. We present a series of experiments that examine the viability of previous methods used to obtain compatibility effects and the validity of the typical interpretation of such effects as evidence for mental simulation of described actions. Our findings add to the growing body of evidence that compatibility between sentence content and sensorimotor processing does not produce robust compatibility effects. Further, our findings suggest the data obtained from some studies that have been successful in generating compatibility effects can be accounted for without appealing to the notion that these effects are due to the simulation of actions implied by the meaning of a sentence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
语言加工的具身化理论的强版本认为，语言理解依赖于对语言意义所传达的感觉运动体验的心理模拟。支持这一观点的主要依据是，句子内容所隐含的动作与同时进行的感觉运动加工之间的兼容性在加工过程中具有优势。尽管在各种情境下都报道了这些效应，但通过直接复制和概念扩展等各种方式来重现这些结果的尝试均未成功。我们开展了一系列实验，检验了用于获得兼容性效应的先前方法的可行性，以及将此类效应作为所描述动作的心理模拟证据的典型解释的有效性。我们的研究结果进一步证明，句子内容与感觉运动加工之间的兼容性不会产生强大的兼容性效应。此外，我们的研究结果表明，一些成功产生兼容性效应的研究所得出的数据，无需诉诸这些效应是由于对句子意义所隐含的动作进行模拟这一观点就能得到解释。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
