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Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing
Cognitive Science
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: n.d.
Pages: 579-590
Library/Archive: 2008 Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
Sources ID: 23035
Visibility: Private
Zotero Collections: Contexts of Contemplation Project
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According to the Perceptual Symbols Theory of cognition (Barsalou, 1999), modality-specific simulations underlie the representation of concepts. A strong prediction of this view is that perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. In this study, participants performed a perceptual detection task and a conceptual property-verification task in alternation. Responses on the property-verification task were slower for those trials that were preceded by a perceptual trial in a different modality than for those that were preceded by a perceptual trial in the same modality. This finding of a modality-switch effect across perceptual processing and conceptual processing supports the hypothesis that perceptual and conceptual representations are partially based on the same systems.
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