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Representing object colour in language comprehension.

Louise Connell1

  • 1Cognition & Communication Research Centre, Division of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK. louise.connell@northumbria.ac.uk

Cognition
|April 18, 2006
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Embodied cognition research shows that understanding sentences about objects can activate color perception, even without task benefits. This suggests color is processed differently than shape during comprehension.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Embodied theories of cognition propose that mental representations involve sensory-motor systems.
  • Specifically, representing a red object may activate neural systems for perceiving red.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if implicit perceptual information, like object color, is represented during sentence comprehension.
  • To determine if this representation occurs even when it doesn't aid task performance.

Main Methods:

  • Participants read sentences implying object colors.
  • They then viewed images of objects that either matched or mismatched the implied color.
  • Response times were measured for a subsequent recognition task.

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Main Results:

  • Responses were faster when the object's color mismatched the implied color compared to when it matched.
  • This indicates color information is processed differently than other object properties (e.g., shape).

Conclusions:

  • Object color appears to be implicitly represented during sentence comprehension.
  • A distinction between stable and unstable embodied representations is proposed to explain these findings.