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Type of Document Dissertation Author Aveyard, Mark URN etd-11102007-103821 Title The Effect of Recent Visual Experience on Later Reading Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Psychology, Department of Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Rolf A. Zwaan Committee Chair Bryan R. Loney Committee Member Colleen M. Kelley Committee Member Gretchen Sunderman Committee Member Michael P. Kaschak Committee Member Keywords
- Working Memory
- Language Comprehension
- Embodiment
- Articulatory Suppression
Date of Defense 2007-08-15 Availability unrestricted Abstract Recent studies have drawn a close relationship between visual perception and language, showing, for example, that readers respond faster to a picture of a flying eagle than a perched eagle after a sentence that implicitly constrains the eagle’s shape (Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002). The present experiments pursue an ecologically-stronger design, showing how incidentally acquired connections between perceptual and linguistic experiential traces in the cognitive network can automatically affect later language comprehension. Two phases were employed here: a phase exposing participants to pictures of critical objects and a later, ostensibly unrelated reading phase. Reading times in Experiment 1 and 2 were faster when the implied shape of objects in text passages matched the shape in first phase pictures. The introduction of an articulatory suppression task in the first phase of Experiment 3, however, produced no similar advantage for the match condition in the subsequent reading tasks. These results are explained as the effect of coding mismatches between phases as well as possible strategy differences between participants. Future directions of study are proposed to provide a clearer test of two competing models of language comprehension.Files
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