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ArticleScientific reports2021

Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception.

Ksenija Slivac, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Peter Hagoort, Monique Flecken

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  1. The Representation of Orientation Semantics in Visual Sensory Memory.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  2. Instant Effects of Semantic Information on Visual Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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Ksenija SlivacMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ksenija.slivac@mpi.nl.
Alexis Hervais-AdelmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Peter HagoortMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Monique FleckenDepartment of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Linguistic labels exert a particularly strong top-down influence on perception. The potency of this influence has been ascribed to their ability to evoke category-diagnostic features of concepts. In doing this, they facilitate the formation of a perceptual template concordant with those features, effectively biasing perceptual activation towards the labelled category. In this study, we employ a cueing paradigm with moving, point-light stimuli across three experiments, in order to examine how the number of biological motion features (form and kinematics) encoded in lexical cues modulates the efficacy of lexical top-down influence on perception. We find that the magnitude of lexical influence on biological motion perception rises as a function of the number of biological motion-relevant features carried by both cue and target. When lexical cues encode multiple biological motion features, this influence is robust enough to mislead participants into reporting erroneous percepts, even when a masking level yielding high performance is used.

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CuesAdultFemaleForm PerceptionHumansLinguisticsMaleMotion PerceptionPhotic StimulationPsychomotor PerformanceReaction TimeSemanticsVocabularyYoung Adult

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PMID34446746
PMCPMC8390742

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