{"pk":25731,"title":"The influence of hand or foot responses on response times in investigating action\nsentence processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In a response time experiment dealing with action language\ncomprehension, we investigated the question of whether the\nexecution of a hand-response would interfere with or facilitate\nhand-related action sentence processing. We analyzed response\ntimes on concrete action, abstract action, and abstract\ncontrol stimuli, given by hand or with the foot respectively.\nBeside the well-known concreteness effect, we found that responses\nby hand on concrete action sentences were relatively\nprolonged in relation to responses with the foot. Thus, there is\na decisive interdependency between the effector-reference of\nthe action verb and the effector used for response detection.\nWe suggest that this has to be taken into account when analyzing\naction language comprehension and that response\neffectors should be chosen in accordance with the action language\nstimuli used.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"action verb"},{"word":"abstract and concrete language"},{"word":"motor\ninterference and facilitation"},{"word":"Embodiment"},{"word":"response times"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hr2p53j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Franziska","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schaller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sabine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weiss","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Horst","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Muller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","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/25731/galley/15355/download/"}]}