Embodied Effects in Verb Processing and Learning: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis.

Yueyan Huang, Yihui Zhai, Zhujun Jiang, Yihan Wang, Li Li

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yueyan HuangSchool of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.

Yihui ZhaiSchool of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.

Zhujun JiangKey Laboratory of Chinese Learning and International Promotion, School of International Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.

Yihan WangSchool of Education, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

Li LiKey Laboratory of Chinese Learning and International Promotion, School of International Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.

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National Social Science Fund of China 24BWY114

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Abstract

Verbs describe actions and changes in states, and are closely grounded in perceptual and motor experiences. Their core attributes align precisely with the embodied effect, which has increasingly attracted attention in research on verb processing and learning. To further clarify the influencing mechanisms and potential factors (verb concreteness, motor features, verb layer, depth of processing task and language status) of the embodied effect in verb processing and learning, a three-level meta-analysis with a random-effects model was performed on 37 studies (265 effect sizes and 12,357 participants) published in the past 15 years. The results revealed that there was an embodied effect in verb processing and learning, with a significant total effect size (Hedges' g = 0.259,

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embodied effectmoderating effectthree-level meta-analysisverb learningverb processing

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PMID42352747

DOI10.3390/bs16060914

PMCPMC13295721

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