Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 33-40.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.01.05

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The Influence of Context and Color Diagnosticity on Perceptual Simulation of Implied Color Information During Sentence Comprehension

LI Ying, ZHANG Ying, LIU Jun   

  1. Department of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001
  • Online:2016-01-15 Published:2016-01-15

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Abstract: Perceptual symbol system held the hypothesis that knowledge representation is perceptual, and readers simulate objects' implied properties by activating perceptual representation during language comprehension. The present study used sentence-picture matching paradigm to explore that whether perceptual simulating process of implied object color information exists during sentence comprehension. Experiment 1 proved that implied color information of objects was perceptually simulated during sentence reading. In Experiment 2, contexts of sentences were changed to explore whether contexts affected perceptual simulation of implied color information. In Experimental 3, relationship between objects and their corresponding color was taken into consideration. The result showed that both context and color diagnosticity played roles in perceptual simulating process of implied object color. Furthermore, to objects with high color diagnosticity, their implied colors were always simulated during sentence processing, even lacking of sufficient sentence contexts.

Key words: implied object color, perceptual simulation, color diagnosticity, language comprehension

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  • B844

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