Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing
Cognitive Science
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Year:
n.d.
Pages:
579-590
Library/Archive:
2008 Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
Sources ID:
23035
Visibility:
Private
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Contexts of Contemplation Project
Abstract:
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According to the Perceptual Symbols Theory of cognition (Barsalou, 1999), modality-specific simulations underlie the representation of concepts. A strong prediction of this view is that perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. In this study, participants performed a perceptual detection task and a conceptual property-verification task in alternation. Responses on the property-verification task were slower for those trials that were preceded by a perceptual trial in a different modality than for those that were preceded by a perceptual trial in the same modality. This finding of a modality-switch effect across perceptual processing and conceptual processing supports the hypothesis that perceptual and conceptual representations are partially based on the same systems.
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