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Borreggine, K. L. (2007). Where Action Meets Linguistic Meaning: Embodied Experience and Sentence Comprehension. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-3515
How is knowledge accessed when recognizing an object, understanding a concept, or comprehending a sentence? We look at the relationship between linguistic meaning and neural systems of perception and action. More specifically, we look at how these systems of perception and action are closely tied to sensorimotor experiences or bodily interactions with the world, and that these sensorimotor experiences are reactivated during the comprehension of sentences. We further investigated the specificity of the phenomena referred to as Action Sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE), which suggests that language processing affects planning and execution actions to investigate questions regarding the specificity of this motor compatibility effect. In three experiments we examine how the urgency of the action described in the sentences modulates the temporal specificity of both the perceptual and motor information necessary to plan and execute actions, the role perspective taking has in the comprehender's interpretation of the sentence, and establishing more precise time measures during the comprehender's preparation and execution of the motor response.
A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Advisory Committee
Michael P. Kaschak, Professor Directing Thesis; Colleen M. Kelley, Committee Member; Ashby E. Plant, Committee Member.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
FSU_migr_etd-3515
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Borreggine, K. L. (2007). Where Action Meets Linguistic Meaning: Embodied Experience and Sentence Comprehension. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-3515