Experiential simulations of negated text information |
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Authors: | Kaup Barbara Yaxley Richard H Madden Carol J Zwaan Rolf A Lüdtke Jana |
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a Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
b Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
c Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | We investigated the question of whether comprehenders mentally simulate a described situation even when this situation is explicitly negated in the sentence. In two experiments, participants read negative sentences such as There was no eagle in the sky, and subsequently responded to pictures of mentioned entities in the context of a recognition task. Participants' responses following negative sentences were faster when the depicted entity matched rather than mismatched the negated situation. These results suggest that comprehenders simulate the negated situation when processing a negated sentence. The results thereby provide further support for the experiential-simulations view of language comprehension. |
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