scholarly journals Quantifying children's sensorimotor experience: Child body-object interaction ratings for 3,359 English words

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiko Joanne Muraki ◽  
Israa A. Siddiqui ◽  
Penny M. Pexman
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Semantic Decision ◽  
Sensorimotor Information ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Sensory Experience Ratings

Body-object interaction (BOI) ratings measure how easily the human body can physically interact with a word's referent. Previous research has found that words higher in BOI tend to be processed more quickly and accurately in tasks such as lexical decision, semantic decision, and syntactic classification, suggesting that sensorimotor information is an important aspect of lexical knowledge. However, limited research has examined the importance of sensorimotor information from a developmental perspective. One barrier to addressing such theoretical questions has been a lack of semantic dimension ratings that take into account child sensorimotor experience. The goal of the current study was to collect Child BOI rating norms. Parents of children aged 5 – 9-years-old were asked to rate words according to how easily an average 6-year-old child can interact with each word’s referent. The relationships of Child and Adult BOI ratings with other lexical semantic dimensions were assessed, as well as the relationships of Child and Adult BOI ratings with age of acquisition. Child BOI ratings were more strongly related to valence and sensory experience ratings than Adult BOI ratings and were a better predictor of three different measures of age of acquisition. The results suggest that child-centric ratings such as those reported here provide a more sensitive measure of children’s experience that can be used to address theoretical questions in embodied cognition from a developmental perspective.

scholarly journals Getting a Grip on Sensorimotor Effects in Lexical-Semantic Processing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Heard ◽  
Christopher R Madan ◽  
Andrea Protzner ◽  
Penny M. Pexman
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Semantic Categorization ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Sensorimotor Information ◽  
Theoretical Import

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor information in lexical-semantic processing is to examine effects of words’ rated body-object interaction (BOI; the ease with which the human body can interact with a word’s referent). Processing tends to be facilitated for words with high BOI compared to words with low BOI, across a wide variety of tasks. Such effects have been referenced in debates over the nature of semantic representations, but their theoretical import has been limited by the fact that BOI is a fairly coarse measure of sensorimotor experience with words’ referents. In the present study we collected ratings for 621 words on seven semantic dimensions (graspability, ease of pantomime, number of actions, animacy, size, danger, and usefulness) in order to investigate which attributes are most strongly related to BOI ratings, and to lexical-semantic processing. BOI ratings were obtained from previous norming studies (Bennett, Burnett, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2011; Tillotson, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2008) and measures of lexical-semantic processing were obtained from previous behavioural megastudies involving the semantic categorization task (concrete/abstract decision; Pexman, Heard, Lloyd, & Yap, 2017) and the lexical decision task (Balota et al., 2007). Results showed that the motor dimension of graspability, ease of pantomime, and number of actions were all related to BOI and that these dimensions together explained more variance in semantic processing than did BOI ratings alone. These ratings will be useful for researchers who wish to study how different kinds of bodily interactions influence lexical-semantic processing and cognition.

scholarly journals Embodied Semantic Effects in Visual Word Recognition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Connell ◽  
Dermot Lynott
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Sensorimotor Information ◽  
The Impact

We review the range of embodied semantic effects that have been found in visual word recognition paradigms (lexical decision, naming). Many different embodied effects have been elicited by distinct measures of sensorimotor information, and are associated with different theoretical accounts of why semantic content affects how quickly a word can be recognised. We discuss effects due to imageability, body-object interaction, relative embodiment, sensory experience, and modality-specific perceptual strength. Finally, we discuss the impact of embodied semantic effects on current models of visual word recognition.

Contrasting Effects of Age of Acquisition in Lexical Decision and Letter Detection

2003 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egbert M. H. Assink ◽  
Sonja Van Well ◽  
Paul P. N. A. Knuijt
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Letter Detection

scholarly journals Contrasting effects of age of acquisition and word frequency on auditory and visual lexical decision

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1282-1291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Turner ◽  
Tim Valentine ◽  
Andrew W. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Visual Lexical Decision

Effects of Danger, Usefulness, and Body-Object Interaction in picture naming

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa R. Van Havermaet ◽  
Lee H. Wurm
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Random Order ◽  
White Line ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
The Common

Abstract Several previous studies have shown that the time-course of word recognition is determined in part by an interaction between connotations of Danger and Usefulness. A small, mostly separate literature has investigated the role of Body-Object Interaction (BOI) in lexical processing. BOI is defined as the ease with which one can interact with an object. To date the lexical decision study of Van Havermaet and Wurm (2014) is the only study to include all three of these constructs. Stimuli in the current study were black-and-white line drawings corresponding to the common nouns used by Van Havermaet and Wurm (2014). Participants viewed the stimuli one at a time in a random order and had to name them as quickly as possible. Naming times revealed a significant three-way interaction between Danger, Usefulness, and BOI similar to that found for visual lexical decision: The familiar Danger x Usefulness interaction, observed in many previous studies, was observed only for items relatively lower on BOI. The interaction between semantic and embodied processing variables is not restricted to purely linguistic stimuli.

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