The Role of Phonology in the Unit-Decade Compatibility Effect

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Macizo ◽  
Amparo Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect

scholarly journals Mask-Induced Priming and the Negative Compatibility Effect

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petroc Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Motor Inhibition ◽  
Positive Priming ◽  
Motor Activation ◽  
Random Line

Abstract. Under certain conditions, masked primes have produced counter-intuitive negative compatibility effects (NCE), such that RT is increased, not decreased, when the target is similar to the prime. This NCE has been interpreted as an index of automatic motor inhibition, triggered to suppress the partial motor activation caused by the prime. An alternative explanation is that perceptual interactions between prime and mask produce positive priming in the opposite direction to the prime, explaining the NCE without postulating inhibition. Here the potential role of this “mask-induced priming” was investigated in two experiments, using masks composed of random lines. Experiment 1 compared masks that included features of the primes and targets with masks that did not. The former should create more mask-induced priming, but the NCE did not differ between masks. Experiment 2 employed masks that contained features of either one target or the other, but not both. These asymmetric masks produced significant mask-induced priming, but it was insufficient in size to account for the prime-related NCE. Thus mask composition can contribute to NCEs, but when random line masks are employed, the major source of the NCE seems to be motor-inhibition.

scholarly journals The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect in ASL: the role of semantics vs. perception

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTEN SECORA ◽  
KAREN EMMOREY
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Visual Motion ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Verb Semantics ◽  
Semantic Judgment ◽  
Sensorimotor Systems ◽  
Action Sentence

abstractEmbodied theories of cognition propose that humans use sensorimotor systems in processing language. The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) refers to the finding that motor responses are facilitated after comprehending sentences that imply movement in the same direction. In sign languages there is a potential conflict between sensorimotor systems and linguistic semantics: movement away from the signer is perceived as motion toward the comprehender. We examined whether perceptual processing of sign movement or verb semantics modulate the ACE. Deaf ASL signers performed a semantic judgment task while viewing signed sentences expressing toward or away motion. We found a significant congruency effect relative to the verb’s semantics rather than to the perceived motion. This result indicates that (a) the motor system is involved in the comprehension of a visual–manual language, and (b) motor simulations for sign language are modulated by verb semantics rather than by the perceived visual motion of the hands.

When do language comprehenders mentally simulate locations?

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nian Liu ◽  
Benjamin Bergen
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Mental Simulation ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Grammatical Aspect ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Mixed Action ◽  
Motor Actions ◽  
Action Sentence

AbstractEmbodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action-sentence Compatibility Effect studies (Glenberg and Kaschak 2002) report mental simulation of motor actions during processing of motion language. But the same studies find no evidence that language comprehenders perform spatial simulations of the corresponding locations. This challenges simulation-based approaches. If locations are not represented in simulation, but are still understood, then simulation may be unnecessary for understanding. We conducted a Location-sentence Compatibility experiment, to determine whether understanders mentally simulate locations. People did indeed simulate locations, but only when sentences used progressive (and not perfect) grammatical aspect. Moreover, mental simulations of locations differed for language about concrete versus abstract events. These findings substantiate the role of mental simulation in language understanding, while highlighting the importance of the grammatical form of utterances as well as their content.

Gestural Dimension of the Perceptuomotor Compatibility Effect in the Speech Domain

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard Olivier ◽  
Didier Bottineau
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Auditory Perception ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Behavioral Study ◽  
Perceptual Decision ◽  
First Time

This behavioral study shows for the first time that the auditory perception of vowels influences silent labial responses. During a perceptual decision task, participants were instructed to choose and execute a silent labial response (lip protrusion versus chin lowering) as quickly as possible depending on the vowel they had perceived auditorily. The main result showed that gestural compatibility between the silent labial response and the articulation of the perceived vowel led to better performance (in terms of response times and errors) than an incompatibility between them. By including a somatic compatibility effect in a more dynamic gestural compatibility effect, this new result suggests that the role of motor activity during speech auditory perception lies in mentally simulating an articulation of the perceived phoneme.

The Role of Representation Strength of the Prime in Subliminal Visuomotor Priming

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-431
Author(s):  
Yongchun Wang ◽  
Yonghui Wang ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Meilin Di ◽  
Yanyan Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Object Type ◽  
Prime Duration ◽  
Negative Compatibility Effect ◽  
Prime Target ◽  
Line Condition

Abstract. This study investigated the role of representation strength of the prime in subliminal visuomotor priming in two experiments. Prime/target compatibility (compatible and incompatible) and preposed object type (jumbled lines, strong masking; and rectangular outlines, weak masking) were manipulated in Experiment 1. A significant negative compatibility effect (NCE) was observed in the rectangle condition, whereas no compatibility effect was found in the line condition. However, when a new variable, prime duration, was introduced in Experiment 2, the NCE was reversed with an increase in the prime duration in the rectangle condition, whereas the NCE was maintained in the line condition. This result is consistent with the claim that increasing the prime duration causes the prime representation to be too strong for inhibition in the rectangle condition but strong enough to reliably trigger inhibition in the line condition. The findings demonstrated that prime representation has a causal role in subliminal visuomotor priming.

The Role of Feedback in Learning Spatially Incompatible Choice Reaction Tasks: Does it Have one?

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (19) ◽  
pp. 1320-1324
Author(s):  
Addie Dutta ◽  
Robert W. Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Response Deadline ◽  
Extended Practice ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Speed Accuracy

Stimulus-response compatibility effects have been shown to persist even after extended practice. In the present study, two experiments were conducted to see if the effects persist when knowledge of results that allows subjects to set performance goals is provided. In the first experiment, summary feedback about mean accuracy and mean reaction time was provided after each block of 40 trials of practice in a two-choice spatial compatibility task. Subjects practiced the task for 2,400 trials, yet the compatibility effect was not eliminated. Compared to previous experiments, reaction times were faster overall, but the degree of change was the same for both compatible and incompatible assignments. In the second experiment, a response deadline was imposed on each trial. If the subject did not respond within the time limit, which was reduced as the experiment progressed, auditory feedback was presented. Summary feedback was also presented as in Experiment 1. Again, 2,400 trials of practice reduced but did not eliminate the compatibility effect. The greater reduction in the difference in reaction times for compatible and incompatible assignments, relative to other experiments, could be attributed to speed-accuracy tradeoff. The results indicate that the persistence of stimulus-response compatibility effects with extended practice is not due to poorer motivation to perform with the incompatible assignment. The results suggest that training will be insufficient to overcome difficulties in performance resulting from spatially incompatible assignments.

The Construal (In)compatibility Effect: The Moderating Role of a Creative Mind-Set

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Yang ◽  
Torsten Ringberg ◽  
Huifang Mao ◽  
Laura A. Peracchio
Keyword(s):  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Creative Mind ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Morey ◽  
Michael P. Kaschak ◽  
Antonio M. Díez-Álamo ◽  
Arthur M. Glenberg ◽  
Rolf A. Zwaan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
The Body ◽  
Analytic Estimate ◽  
Action Sentence

AbstractThe Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences by producing movements toward the body or away from the body. The ACE is the finding that movements are faster when the direction of the movement (e.g., toward) matches the direction of the action in the to-be-judged sentence (e.g., Art gave you the pen describes action toward you). We report on a pre-registered, multi-lab replication of one version of the ACE. The results show that none of the 18 labs involved in the study observed a reliable ACE, and that the meta-analytic estimate of the size of the ACE was essentially zero.

Role of an Ideomotor Mechanism in Number Processing

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Badets ◽  
Iring Koch ◽  
Lucette Toussaint
Keyword(s):  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Compatibility Effect ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Number Processing ◽  
Imagery Task ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Response Task ◽  
Ideomotor Principle

The ideomotor principle predicts that the anticipation of expected sensory consequences precedes and controls voluntary goal-directed movements. Recent studies have revealed that an ideomotor mechanism could also support the link between finger movements and number processing. However, it is unknown whether such a mechanism is devoted to number processing per se, that is, without associated movement. In three experiments, we tested whether the ideomotor mechanism was also involved in a verbal number production task without associated goal-directed and motor dimensions. We tested this hypothesis in a response-effect (R-E) paradigm generally used to assess the ideomotor mechanisms. The results of Experiment 1 revealed a compatibility effect both in a stimulus-response task and an R-E task, suggesting the involvement of an ideomotor mechanism during number processing. More importantly, Experiment 2 revealed that performance in a motor imagery task correlated with the R-E compatibility effect, whereas performance in a visual imagery task did not, suggesting a distinct motor imagery contribution to R-E compatibility. Finally, Experiment 3 showed a strong R-E compatibility effect in a verbal word production task, but the correlations with motor or visual imagery tasks were not observed. Altogether, these findings suggest that ideomotor mechanisms play a specific and functional role in number processing.

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