Representing object colour in language comprehension

Connell, Louise (2007) Representing object colour in language comprehension. Cognition, 102 (3). pp. 476-485. ISSN 0010-0277

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Cognition
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? analysis of variancecolorcolor perceptioncomprehensionconcept formationgreat britainhumanslanguagemental processeslinguistics and languagecognitive neuroscienceexperimental and cognitive psychologylanguage and linguistics ??
ID Code:
68466
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Deposited On:
30 Jan 2014 09:54
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Yes
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Published
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