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Simulating Semantics: Are Individual Differences in Motor Imagery Related to Sensorimotor Effects in Language Processing?
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Muraki, Emiko J.; Pexman, Penny M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
In embodied theories of semantic representation, the processes and mechanisms of modal simulations that are engaged during semantic processing have tended to be underspecified. We investigated the possibility that motor imagery may be a mechanism of simulation, using an individual differences approach. In this preregistered study, we assessed…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Individual Differences, Decision Making
Individual Differences in Semantic Processing: Insights from the Calgary Semantic Decision Project
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Pexman, Penny M.; Yap, Melvin J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Most previous studies of semantic processing have examined group-level data. We investigated the possibility that there might be individual differences in semantic decision performance even among the standard undergraduate population and that such differences might provide insights into semantic processing. We analyzed the Calgary Semantic…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Semantics, Language Processing, Decision Making