TY - JOUR
T1 - The linguistic looming effect
AU - Díez-Álamo, Antonio M.
AU - Glenberg, Arthur M.
AU - Díez, Emiliano
AU - Alonso, María A.
AU - Fernandez, Angel
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors were supported by research grants awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants PSI2013-42872-P and PSI2017-82748-P ) and by Junta de Castilla y León (grant SA052G18 ). Additional support was provided to A. M. Díez-Álamo from a predoctoral grant by University of Salamanca and Banco Santander ( 463A.B.01, 2013 ), and to M. A. Alonso from a research grant from Plan Propio de Investigación de la Universidad de La Laguna (grant 2017/0001035 ). All funders are located in Spain. The present research was presented by A. M. Díez-Álamo as part of an academic thesis for the degree of Ph.D. in the University of Salamanca in 2018, entitled “Lenguaje, memoria y corporeidad: Estudio empírico del efecto de las representaciones corporeizadas”, which was archived in its institutional repository. In addition, partial results were presented as posters at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA, 2016, and at the 6th International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary, 2016. We thank Elena Flores for her efforts in scoring part of the memory data as an independent rater.
Funding Information:
The authors were supported by research grants awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants PSI2013-42872-P and PSI2017-82748-P) and by Junta de Castilla y Le?n (grant SA052G18). Additional support was provided to A. M. D?ez-?lamo from a predoctoral grant by University of Salamanca and Banco Santander (463A.B.01, 2013), and to M. A. Alonso from a research grant from Plan Propio de Investigaci?n de la Universidad de La Laguna (grant 2017/0001035). All funders are located in Spain. The present research was presented by A. M. D?ez-?lamo as part of an academic thesis for the degree of Ph.D. in the University of Salamanca in 2018, entitled ?Lenguaje, memoria y corporeidad: Estudio emp?rico del efecto de las representaciones corporeizadas?, which was archived in its institutional repository. In addition, partial results were presented as posters at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA, 2016, and at the 6th International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary, 2016. We thank Elena Flores for her efforts in scoring part of the memory data as an independent rater.
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PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - We describe a new phenomenon related to language comprehension and memory: the Linguistic Looming Effect (LLE). The perceptual looming bias is the finding that objects approaching the self grab attention and generate quick adaptive action, such as avoidance of the object (Neuhoff, 2018). The LLE is the finding that sentences that describe concrete objects or abstract entities moving toward the self are processed more quickly and remembered better than sentences describing motion of objects or abstract entities away from the self. The first three experiments of the present research describe the LLE as observed in experiments designed to examine the action-sentence compatibility effect, or ACE (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002) and its consequences for long-term memory. The fourth experiment was specifically designed to generate an LLE in the absence of two potential confounds, and the results again showed the effect. The fifth experiment served to replicate the effect and to analyze its occurrence when sentences with a third-person perspective were used. The LLE is discussed in relation to prior empirical findings, and it is interpreted in the light of theoretical frameworks related to the embodied approach to cognition and the role played by the self in the processing and remembering of information.
AB - We describe a new phenomenon related to language comprehension and memory: the Linguistic Looming Effect (LLE). The perceptual looming bias is the finding that objects approaching the self grab attention and generate quick adaptive action, such as avoidance of the object (Neuhoff, 2018). The LLE is the finding that sentences that describe concrete objects or abstract entities moving toward the self are processed more quickly and remembered better than sentences describing motion of objects or abstract entities away from the self. The first three experiments of the present research describe the LLE as observed in experiments designed to examine the action-sentence compatibility effect, or ACE (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002) and its consequences for long-term memory. The fourth experiment was specifically designed to generate an LLE in the absence of two potential confounds, and the results again showed the effect. The fifth experiment served to replicate the effect and to analyze its occurrence when sentences with a third-person perspective were used. The LLE is discussed in relation to prior empirical findings, and it is interpreted in the light of theoretical frameworks related to the embodied approach to cognition and the role played by the self in the processing and remembering of information.
KW - Embodied cognition
KW - Language comprehension
KW - Linguistic looming effect
KW - Memory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jml.2020.104147
DO - 10.1016/j.jml.2020.104147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087496007
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 114
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
M1 - 104147
ER -