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Perception of Auditory Motion Affects Language Processing
Author(s) -
Kaschak Michael P.,
Zwaan Rolf A.,
Aveyard Mark,
Yaxley Richard H.
Publication year - 2006
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 - 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_54
Subject(s) - perception , sentence processing , sentence , comprehension , stimulus (psychology) , visual processing , psychology , cognitive psychology , auditory perception , motion (physics) , visual perception , communication , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , programming language
Previous reports have demonstrated that the comprehension of sentences describing motion in a particular direction (toward, away, up, or down) is affected by concurrently viewing a stimulus that depicts motion in the same or opposite direction. We report 3 experiments that extend our understanding of the relation between perception and language processing in 2 ways. First, whereas most previous studies of the relation between perception and language processing have focused on visual perception, our data show that sentence processing can be affected by the concurrent processing of auditory stimuli. Second, it is shown that the relation between the processing of auditory stimuli and the processing of sentences depends on whether the sentences are presented in the auditory or visual modality.