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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization

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Body-object interaction ratings for 1,618 monosyllabic nouns.

Sherri M Tillotson¹, Paul D Siakaluk, Penny M Pexman

¹University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

Behavior Research Methods

|November 13, 2008

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Body-object interaction (BOI) affects how quickly we recognize words. Words easier to interact with physically (high BOI) are processed faster than those that are not (low BOI).

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Body-object interaction (BOI) is the ease of physical interaction between humans and word referents.
Prior studies indicate BOI impacts visual word recognition, with high-BOI words processed faster and more accurately than low-BOI words.
Previous research matched high and low BOI words on imageability to isolate BOI effects.

Purpose of the Study:

To collect a large set of body-object interaction ratings for monosyllabic nouns.
To test the generalizability of BOI effects across a broader range of words.
To provide a valuable resource for researchers studying or controlling for BOI.

Main Methods:

Collected body-object interaction ratings on a 1-7 scale.
Obtained ratings for 1,618 monosyllabic nouns.
Made ratings available via the Psychonomic Society's Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data.

Main Results:

A comprehensive dataset of BOI ratings for 1,618 monosyllabic nouns was established.
The data supports the investigation of BOI effects across a larger vocabulary.
The collected ratings can be used to manipulate or control for BOI in future research.

Conclusions:

The study provides a large-scale dataset of body-object interaction ratings.
This resource facilitates further research into the influence of BOI on cognitive processes.
Researchers can utilize these ratings to enhance experimental designs and analyses.