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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Language comprehension involves mentally simulating object features.
  • Previous studies had confounding correlations between response and match status.
  • The role of automatic color simulation in language processing requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the color-match effect persists after removing response-related confounds.
  • To examine automatic color simulation during language comprehension.
  • To test predictions of the grounded cognition framework.

Main Methods:

  • Sentence-picture verification task with carefully controlled stimuli.
  • Inclusion of color-matching filler trials to eliminate response-match correlations.
  • Comparison of reaction times and error rates between native and non-native language speakers.

Main Results:

  • A significant color-match advantage was observed in both reaction time and error rates.
  • This effect was found in both native and non-native language samples.
  • Results indicate that color is automatically simulated during language processing.

Conclusions:

  • Color simulation is an automatic process during language comprehension.
  • Findings support the grounded cognition framework's predictions.
  • The study provides robust evidence for feature simulation in language processing.