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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Conceptual knowledge is theorized to involve mental simulations of perceptual experiences (Barsalou, 1999).
  • Evidence supports mental simulations in native language comprehension, but their role in non-native language comprehension is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether non-native English speakers engage in mental simulations during language comprehension.
  • To examine if these simulations are spontaneous and impact memory recall.

Main Methods:

  • Replication of the shape match effect in a sentence-picture verification task with non-native English speakers.
  • Delayed recognition memory test comparing performance with congruent versus incongruent object shapes implied by sentences.

Main Results:

  • The shape match effect was replicated, suggesting native-like visual simulations in non-native comprehenders.
  • Participants showed improved delayed recognition memory when object shapes matched sentence-implied shapes.
  • No correlation was found between English proficiency and the magnitude of the shape match effect.

Conclusions:

  • Non-native language comprehension involves spontaneous visual mental simulations, akin to native language processing.
  • These simulations are independent of the individual's level of proficiency in the non-native language.