{"pk":49600,"title":"Are object state changes represented during language comprehension? A non-replication and extension","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous work suggests that non-visual object properties like\nweight are automatically integrated into event models during\nlanguage comprehension. Horchak and Garrido (2021) found\nthat Portuguese speakers' response times were faster when the\nstate of a presented object (e.g., a smashed tomato) matched\nthe event implied by the preceding sentence (e.g., You drop a\nbowling ball on a tomato). In an exact replication in English\n(Experiment 1), we failed to replicate this weight-state match\neffect. In Experiment 2, we examined the potential role of\nsentence focus, manipulating whether the target item served as\nthe subject or direct object in the sentence. Response times\nrevealed a weight-state match effect, but only when the target\nobject was the focus (i.e., subject) of the sentence. Overall,\nthese findings suggest that the representation of object state\nchanges during language comprehension may depend on the\ninteraction of object properties and language-specific syntactic   \nconstraints.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Embodied Cognition; Event cognition; Language Comprehension; Representation"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gr5r4dh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Channing","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Hambric","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bowdoin College","department":""},{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Holmes","name_suffix":"","institution":"Reed College","department":""},{"first_name":"Abhilasha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kumar","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bowdoin College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49600/galley/37562/download/"}]}