Authors
Max M Louwerse, Sterling Hutchinson, Richard Tillman, Gabriel Recchia
Publication date
2015/4/21
Journal
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
430-447
Publisher
Routledge
Description
The cognitive science literature increasingly demonstrates that perceptual representations are activated during conceptual processing. Such findings suggest that the debate on whether conceptual processing is predominantly symbolic or perceptual has been resolved. However, studies too frequently provide evidence for perceptual simulations without addressing whether other factors explain dependent variables as well, and if so, to what extent. The current paper examines effect sizes computed from 126 experiments in 51 published embodied cognition studies to clarify the conditions under which perceptual simulations are most important. Results showed that effects of language statistics tend to be as large or larger than those of perceptual stimulation. Moreover, factors that can be associated with immediate processing (button press, word processing) tend to reduce the effect size of perceptual simulation. These …
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MM Louwerse, S Hutchinson, R Tillman, G Recchia - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2015