Imageability and Body-Object Interaction Effects in Multisyllabic Word Recognition

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. R. Bennett ◽  
A. Nicole Burnett ◽  
Paul D. Siakaluk ◽  
Penny M. Pexman
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Object Interaction

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.

Semantic effects in word recognition are moderated by body-object interaction

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa R. Van Havermaet ◽  
Lee H. Wurm
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Motor Responses ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Decision Times ◽  
Visual Lexical Decision

A potential embodied influence in the semantic effects of Danger and Usefulness is investigated using Body-Object Interaction (BOI). Lexical decision times are influenced by ratings of Danger and Usefulness. In a frequently-found interaction, thought to be produced by activated approach-withdraw motor responses, increasing Danger ratings produce faster responses for items with lower Usefulness ratings while producing slower responses for items with higher Usefulness ratings. BOI is used to test the embodied explanation of this interaction. The same 102 words were presented in two lexical decision experiments. In both auditory and visual lexical decision, the effects of Danger and Usefulness were found to be diminished for items with higher BOI ratings. BOI moderates Danger and Usefulness effects in both auditory and visual lexical decision, in a way that suggests BOI is either the stronger or the temporally earlier effect.

Evidence for the activation of sensorimotor information during visual word recognition: The body–object interaction effect

Cognition ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 433-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Siakaluk ◽  
Penny M. Pexman ◽  
Laura Aguilera ◽  
William J. Owen ◽  
Christopher R. Sears
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
The Body ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Sensorimotor Information

The Theoretical Contrast in Scanning and Conventional High Resolution Microscopes

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
E. Zeitler ◽  
M. G. R. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Small Volume ◽  
Volume Element ◽  
Optical Processing ◽  
Image Construction ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Optical Treatment ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Intensity Contrast

In the formation of an image each small volume element of the object is correlated to an areal element in the image. The structure or detail of the object is represented by changes in intensity from element to element, and this variation of intensity (contrast) is determined by the interaction of the electrons with the specimen, and by the optical processing of the information-carrying electrons. Both conventional and scanning transmission electron microscopes form images which may be considered in this way, but the mechanism of image construction is very different in the two cases. Although the electron-object interaction is the same, the optical treatment differs.

Effects of Phonological Decoding Training on Children's Word Recognition of CVC, CV, and VC Structures

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenyatta O. Rivers ◽  
Linda J. Lombardino ◽  
Cynthia K. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Multiple Baseline ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Group Training ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Multiple Baseline Design ◽  
Baseline Design ◽  
Phonological Decoding ◽  
The Third ◽  
Letter Sound

The effects of training in letter-sound correspondences and phonemic decoding (segmenting and blending skills) on three kindergartners' word recognition abilities were examined using a single-subject multiple-baseline design across behaviors and subjects. Whereas CVC pseudowords were trained, generalization to untrained CVC pseudowords, untrained CVC real words, untrained CV and VC pseudowords, and untrained CV and VC real words were assessed. Generalization occurred to all of the untrained constructions for two of the three subjects. The third subject did not show the same degree of generalization to VC pseudowords and real words; however, after three training sessions, this subject read all VC constructions with 100% accuracy. Findings are consistent with group training studies that have shown the benefits of decoding training on word recognition and spelling skills and with studies that have demonstrated the effects of generalization to less complex structures when more complex structures are trained.

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