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Perceptual Processing Affects Conceptual Processing
Author(s) -
Van Dantzig Saskia,
Pecher Diane,
Zeelenberg René,
Barsalou Lawrence W.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1080/03640210802035365
Subject(s) - perception , cognitive psychology , cognition , task (project management) , psychology , modality (human–computer interaction) , property (philosophy) , alternation (linguistics) , representation (politics) , cognitive science , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , linguistics , politics , political science , law , economics , philosophy , management , epistemology
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.