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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Grounded cognition theory posits shared resources between conceptual and perceptual processing.
  • This implies bidirectional influence between these cognitive domains.
  • The role of semantic processing in modulating this interaction requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the bidirectional relationship between conceptual and perceptual processing of size.
  • To determine if semantic processing influences the interaction between conceptual and perceptual size information.
  • To examine the size-congruency effect under different task demands.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed tasks involving word pairs where font size was manipulated to be congruent or incongruent with the referred object's actual size.
  • Experiments involved comparing object sizes, font sizes, or both based on task cues.
  • The size-congruency effect was measured by accuracy and response times.

Main Results:

  • A significant size-congruency effect was observed when participants compared object sizes (Experiment 1a).
  • This effect was not found when participants solely compared font sizes (Experiments 1b and 2).
  • Bidirectional effects between conceptual and perceptual processing were evident when task demands varied (Experiments 3a and 3b).

Conclusions:

  • Conceptual and perceptual processing of size interact bidirectionally.
  • Semantic activation is crucial for conceptual processing to influence perceptual processing.
  • These findings support and extend grounded cognition theory by highlighting the role of semantic context.