メンタライジングスキルにおける個人差と概念処理との関連
Hannah T Corenblum1, Penny M Pexman1
1Western University, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada.
Abstract:
Multiple representation theories of lexical semantics assume meaning is retrieved through simulation. However, simulation mechanisms are not well understood. Mental state inferencing - the capacity to understand mental states - has been proposed as a simulation mechanism, particularly for cognitive concepts (concepts referring to cognitive events, states, and products) (Kiefer et al., 2022). In a pre-registered study, we tested this proposal using an individual differences approach. Adult participants (n = 297) completed three measures of mentalizing skills. They also completed two syntactic classification tasks (is this word a verb; is this word a noun?) to measure semantic processing and test for the cognition effect (more cognitive words processed more efficiently than less cognitive words). We replicated the cognition effect, with high-cognition words eliciting faster and more accurate responses than low-cognition words. Additionally, we found significant interactions between mentalizing and the cognition effect: participants with stronger mentalizing skills showed larger cognition effects. This relationship suggests that mentalizing may serve as a simulation mechanism when accessing word meaning.
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