{"pk":28071,"title":"Interference effects of novel word-object learning on visual perception","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous studies investigating effects of language\ncomprehension on spatial processing have used existing words\nwith pre-existing spatial associations. Here participants learnt\nnovel words and novel objects with spatial associations.\nFollowing training, participants had to judge whether a visual\nobject matched a word. Objects could match in identity or in\nspatial location. In Experiment 1, participants learnt just novel\nwords and objects; Experiment 2 compared performance with\nexisting objects with pre-existing spatial associations. We\nfound mismatching (but task irrelevant) spatial information\ninterfered with judgements of object identity, but only for\nnovel words. In Experiment 3, we altered correspondence\nbetween visual targets and semantics using a target\ndiscrimination task, where the target had no relationship to the\nverbal cue. We found the opposite results to the previous two\nstudies, as responses to spatially matching targets were slower\nthan spatially mismatching targets. We discuss implications for\nembodied and non-embodied accounts of these findings.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"word learning; embodied cognition; spatial\nmemory; interference; semantics"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b3118pc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shane","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lindsay","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hull","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nightingale","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hull","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28071/galley/17710/download/"}]}