{"pk":28164,"title":"Movement Speed Affects Speed Language Comprehension","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Comprehending action language recruits the action system.\nTo what extent do action simulations reflect the fine-grained\nparameters of real world action? We investigate whether\naction simulations are sensitive to speed of an action. In two\nexperiments participants completed a motor task where they\nmoved slowly or quickly, followed by a sentence sensibility\ntask. We found an overall action effect for sentences\ndescribing hand actions: moving slowly increased accuracy\n(Exp.1) and reduced response time (Exp. 2). For sentences\ndescribing full-body actions, responses were more accurate\nwhen movement speed matched the speed implied in the\nsentence, in Experiment 1 only. This study demonstrates\nonline action simulation and provides evidence that speed of\naction can be simulated during sentence comprehension.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"embodiment; mental simulation; action; speed"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9528m0h2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Speed","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Wessel","middle_name":"O","last_name":"van Dam","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","department":""},{"first_name":"Gabriella","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vigliocco","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Rutvik","middle_name":"H","last_name":"Desai","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","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/28164/galley/17823/download/"}]}