{"pk":25399,"title":"How Grammatical Gender Affects Perspective Taking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This is the first study to examine the influence of gender-sex\ncongruence (match or mismatch between grammatical gender\nmarkers and participant sex) on the embodied processing of\nfirst-person sentences and images with either an internal or an\nexternal perspective in a picture-sentence verification task in\nBulgarian modeled on Bruny e et al.’s (2009) exp erimental\nparadigm. Participants were shown not to discriminate\nbetween perspectives when the grammatical gender was\ncongruent with their own sex, thus allowing for an agentive\ninterpretation by the reader. However, in the gender-sex\nincongruent condition, a significant 83 ms effect of image\nperspective was observed indicating large processing costs for\nattempting to adopt an internal perspective when the\np articip ant’s sex was incomp atible with the first -person\ngender marking, hence with action simulation from an\negocentric perspective. These results are discussed in terms of\nembodiment specificity accounts and the experiential basis of\ngrammar processing.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"perspective; grammatical gender; embodiment;\nBulgarian."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x79h99c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elena","middle_name":"","last_name":"Andonova","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology","department":""},{"first_name":"Zornitsa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Savcheva","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology","department":""},{"first_name":"Gergana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Todorova","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25399/galley/15023/download/"}]}