Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns |
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Authors: | Annalisa Setti Nicoletta Caramelli Anna M. Borghi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology , University of Bologna , Bologna, Italy annalisa.setti@unibo.it;3. Department of Psychology , University of Bologna , Bologna, Italy |
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Abstract: | Two experiments provide evidence that information about the real-life size of objects is elicited by nouns. A priming paradigm was used with a category membership verification task. The results showed that targets were responded to faster when preceded by a same-size prime, and that large entities were processed faster than small ones. Overall, our results significantly extend previous work on perceptual information elicited by concepts (e.g., Zwaan & Yaxley, 2004) and, in particular, on size information (e.g., Rubinstein & Henik, 2002) by means of a size-unrelated paradigm. |
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Keywords: | Conceptual knowledge Categorisation Size |
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