Unintended embodiment of concepts into percepts: Sensory activation boosts attention for same-modality concepts in the attentional blink paradigm |
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Authors: | Nicolas Vermeulen Martial Mermillod Olivier Corneille |
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Institution: | a Department of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), 10 Place Cardinal Mercier, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium b Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium c Clermont Université - Université Blaise Pascal - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, 34 Avenue Carnot, 63037 Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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Abstract: | This study shows that sensory priming facilitates reports of same-modality concepts in an attentional blink paradigm. Participants had to detect and report two target words (T1 and T2) presented for 53 ms each among a series of nonwords distractors at a frequency of up to 19 items per second. SOA between target words was set to 53 ms or 213 ms, with reduced attention expected for T2 under the longer SOA (attentional blink) and for T1 under the shorter SOA (lag-1 sparing). These effects were found but reduced when the sensory modality of the concepts matched that of a sensory stimulation occurring prior to the detection trial. Hence, sensory activation increased report for same-modality concepts. This finding reveals that grounded cognition effects (1) are involved in conceptual processing as soon as a word has reached the point of lexical identification and (2) occur independent of intentional access to sensory properties of concepts. |
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Keywords: | Concepts Knowledge Modality Embodied cognition Attention Perception |
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