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Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing

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Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing
According to the Perceptual Symbols Theory of cognition (Barsalou, 1999), modality-specific simulations underlie the representation of concepts. A strong prediction of this view is that perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. In this study, participants performed a perceptual detection task and a conceptual property-verification task in alternation. Responses on the property-verification task were slower for those trials that were preceded by a perceptual trial in a different modality than for those that were preceded by a perceptual trial in the same modality. This finding of a modality-switch effect across perceptual processing and conceptual processing supports the hypothesis that perceptual and conceptual representations are partially based on the same systems.
Saskia Van Dantzig, Diane Pecher, René Zeel
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where COGSCI
Authors Saskia Van Dantzig, Diane Pecher, René Zeelenberg, Lawrence W. Barsalou
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