{"pk":28953,"title":"Linguistic Distributional Information and Sensorimotor Similarity BothContribute to Semantic Category Production","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigated the contribution of sensorimotor and linguistic distributional information in a semantic category produc-tion task, hypothesizing that the task would rely on both but particularly on linguistic distributional information, whichmay provide a shortcut for conceptual processing. In a pre-registered study, we asked participants to name members ofsemantic categories and tested whether responses were predicted by a novel measure of sensorimotor proximity (based onan 11-dimension representation of sensorimotor experience) and linguistic proximity (based on word co-occurrence de-rived from a large subtitle corpus). Both proximity measures predicted the order and frequency of responses and, critically,linguistic proximity had an effect above and beyond sensorimotor proximity. Our findings support linguistic-sensorimotoraccounts of the conceptual system and suggest that category production is based on both the similarity of sensorimotor ex-perience between the category and member concepts, and on the linguistic distributional relationship between the categoryand member labels.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations with Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s12536t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Briony","middle_name":"","last_name":"Banks","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lancaster University","department":""},{"first_name":"Cai","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wingfield","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Lancaster","department":""},{"first_name":"Louise","middle_name":"","last_name":"Connell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Lancaster","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28953/galley/18824/download/"}]}