ArticleJournal of cognition2020
Towards Understanding the Task Dependency of Embodied Language Processing: The Influence of Colour During Language-Vision Interactions.
Article in Journal of cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Multimodal colour modulation for cognitive enhancement in intelligent rehabilitation: a systematic review and translational guidance.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- The influence of sentence focus on mental simulation: A possible cause of ACE instability.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Do linguistic stimuli activate experiential colour traces related to the entities they refer to and, if so, under what circumstances?Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Good enough processing: what have we learned in the 20 years since Ferreira et al. (2002)?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception.Scientific reports · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A main challenge for theories of embodied cognition is to understand the task dependency of embodied language processing. One possibility is that perceptual representations (e.g., typical colour of objects mentioned in spoken sentences) are not activated routinely but the influence of perceptual representation emerges only when context strongly supports their involvement in language. To explore this question, we tested the effects of colour representations during language processing in three visual-world eye-tracking experiments. On critical trials, participants listened to sentence-embedded words associated with a prototypical colour (e.g., '…spinach…') while they inspected a visual display with four printed words (Experiment 1), coloured or greyscale line drawings (Experiment 2) and a 'blank screen' after a preview of coloured or greyscale line drawings (Experiment 3). Visual context always presented a word/object (e.g., frog) associated with the same prototypical colour (e.g. green) as the spoken target word and three distractors. When hearing
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.