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The linguistic looming effect
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Materia
Linguistic looming effect
Language comprehension
Memory
Embodied cognition
Fecha de publicación
2020
Citación
Díez-Álamo, A. M., Glenberg, A. M., Díez, E., Alonso, M. A., & Fernandez, A. (2020). The linguistic looming effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 114, 104147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104147
Resumen
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.
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0749-596X
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10.1016/j.jml.2020.104147
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