Conceptual representations are perceptually grounded, but when investigating which perceptual modalities involved, researchers have typically restricted their consideration to vision, touch, hearing, taste and smell. However, there is another major modality of information that distinct from these traditional five senses; is, interoception, or sensations inside the body. In this paper, we use megastudy data (modality-specific ratings strength for over 32 000 words) explore how interoceptive...

The present study investigated the effects of inhibition, vocabulary knowledge, and working memory on perceptual adaptation to accented speech. One hundred young, normal-hearing adults listened sentences spoken in a constructed, unfamiliar accent presented speech-shaped background noise. Speech Reception Thresholds (SRTs) corresponding 50% speech recognition accuracy provided measurement Stroop, tests were performed measure cognitive ability. Participants adapted as revealed by decrease SRTs...

Semantic categories, and the concepts belonging to them, have commonly been defined by their relative concreteness, that is, reliance on perception. However, sensorimotor grounding must be regarded as going beyond basic five senses incorporate a multi-dimensional variety of perceptual action experience. We present series exploratory analyses examining participant-produced member for 117 spanning concrete (e.g. animal furniture ) highly abstract unit time science categories. found both...

concepts are relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience, philosophy. This consensus paper synthesizes the work views researchers in field, discussing current perspectives on theoretical methodological issues, recommendations for future research. In this paper, we urge go beyond traditional abstract-concrete dichotomy consider multiple dimensions that characterize (e.g., sensorimotor experience,...

The human conceptual system comprises simulated information of sensorimotor experience and linguistic distributional how words are used in language. Moreover, the shortcut hypothesis predicts that people will use computationally cheaper where it is sufficient to inform a task response. In pre-registered category production study, we asked participants verbally name members concrete abstract categories tested whether performance could be predicted by novel measure similarity (based on an...

Production of actions is highly dependent on concurrent sensory information. In speech production, for example, movement the articulators guided by both auditory and somatosensory input. It has been demonstrated in non-human primates that self-produced vocalizations those others are differentially processed temporal cortex. The aim current study was to investigate how motor responses differ externally produced speech. Using functional neuroimaging, subjects were asked produce sentences...

Imageability – the ease of generating a mental image for word has been commonly used as predictor recognition but its effects are highly variable across literature, raising questions about robustness and stability construct. We compared six existing imageability norms in their ability to predict RT accuracy lexical decision naming thousands words. Results showed that, when sensorimotor sources variance were partialled out, predicted little unique performance effect sizes varied greatly...

Perceptual adaptation allows humans to understand a variety of accented speech. We investigated whether perceptual speech is facilitated if listeners can see speaker's facial and mouth movements. In Study 1, participants listened sentences in novel accent underwent period training with audiovisual or audio-only cues, presented quiet background noise. A control group also visual-only (speech-reading) cues. observed no significant difference between any the groups. To address number remaining...

Abstract We present a database of category production (aka semantic fluency) norms collected in the UK for 117 categories (67 concrete and 50 abstract). Participants verbally named as many members possible within 60 seconds, resulting large variety over 2000 generated member concepts. The feature common measures (production frequency, mean ordinal rank, first-rank frequency), well response times all first-named members, typicality ratings from separate participant sample. provide two...

Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We investigated the contribution of multiple aspects sensorimotor experience – those relating to body, communication, food, and objects memory, by analysing megastudy data series hierarchical linear regressions. found different forms produced effects on memory. While stronger grounding object- food-related facilitated as expected...

Joseph Dejerine passed away on 28 February 1917 in the midst of a world at war. One hundred years later we celebrate legacy this pioneer neuroscience. In 1895, Jules published first volume seminal work, Anatomie des centres nerveux; 2 was 1901. major section tome (vol. 1 pp. 749–80), and his wife long-term collaborator, Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke, produced treatise white matter pathways brain, composed anatomical descriptions meticulous detail beautiful illustration (drawn by H. Gillet) that...

Growing evidence shows that theta-band (4–7 Hz) activity in the auditory cortex phase-locks to rhythms of overt speech. Does theta also encode rhythmic dynamics inner speech? Previous research established silent reading direct speech quotes (e.g., Mary said: "This dress is lovely!") elicits more vivid than indirect said was lovely). As we cannot directly track phase alignment between and over time, used EEG measure brain's phase-locked responses onset quote reading. We found (vs. indirect)...

Purpose Visual cues from a speaker's face may benefit perceptual adaptation to degraded speech, but current evidence is limited. We aimed replicate results previous studies establish the extent which visual speech can lead greater over time, extending existing real-time paradigm (i.e., without separate training period). A second aim was investigate whether eye gaze patterns toward mouth were related better perception, hypothesizing that listeners who looked more at would show adaptation....

Altering reafferent sensory information can have a profound effect on motor output. Introducing short delay [delayed auditory feedback (DAF)] during speech production results in modulations of voice and loudness, produces range dysfluencies. The ability speakers to resist the effects delayed is variable yet it unclear what neural processes underlie differences susceptibility DAF. Here, DAF investigated by looking at basis within between subject changes fluency under 50 200 ms conditions....

Events are temporally-bounded experiences involving people, objects and actions that can be segmented into sequences of smaller meaningful events (e.g., the steps involved in constructing a piece furniture), but role inner language remembering such has been unclear. We investigated whether enhances memory for naturalistic, non-verbal task where participants constructed simple models from memory. Across three experiments, we used linguistic suppression dual-task paradigm to test improved...

The linguistic-simulation approach to cognition predicts that language can enable more efficient conceptual processing than purely sensorimotor-affective simulations of concepts. We tested the implications this in memory for sequences real-world objects, where use linguistic labels (i.e., words and phrases) could representation object concepts via full sensorimotor simulation; a proposal called bootstrapping. In three pre-registered experiments using nonverbal paradigm, we asked participants...

Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We investigated the contribution of multiple aspects sensorimotor experience-those relating to body, communication, food, and objects-to memory, by analyzing megastudy data series hierarchical linear regressions. found different forms experience produced effects on memory. While stronger grounding object- food-related facilitated...

Semantic categories, and the concepts belonging to them, have traditionally been defined by their relative concreteness; that is, reliance on perception. However, sensorimotor grounding must be regarded as going beyond basic five senses, incorporate a multidimensional variety of perceptual action experience. We present series exploratory analyses examining participant-produced member for 117 spanning concrete (e.g., animal, furniture) highly abstract unit time, science) categories. found...

We present a database of category production (aka semantic fluency) norms collected in the UK for 117 categories (67 concrete and 50 abstract). Participants verbally named as many members possible within 60 seconds, resulting large variety over 2000 generated member concepts. The feature common measures (production frequency, mean ordinal rank, first rank frequency), well response times all first-named members, typicality ratings from separate participant sample. provide two versions...

Purpose This study first aimed to establish whether viewing specific parts of the speaker's face (eyes or mouth), compared whole face, affected adaptation distorted noise-vocoded sentences. Second, this also replicate results on processing speech from lab-based experiments in an online setup. Method We monitored recognition accuracy while participants were listening established if able perceive and adapt audiovisual four-band sentences when entire moving was visible (AV Full). Four further...

The ability to quickly adapt distorted speech signals, such as noise-vocoding, is one of the mechanisms listeners employ understand another in challenging listening conditions. In addition, have exploit information offered by visual aspects speech, and being able see speaker’s face while perceiving improves perception adaptation these signals. However, it unclear how important viewing specific parts successful use – particularly, does looking at mouth specifically improve recognition...

The human conceptual system comprises simulated information of sensorimotor experience and linguistic distributional how words are used in language. Moreover, the shortcut hypothesis predicts that people will use computationally cheaper where it is sufficient to inform a task response. In pre-registered category production study, we asked participants verbally name members concrete abstract categories, tested whether performance could be predicted by novel measure similarity (based on an...

Purpose: Visual cues from a speaker’s face may benefit perceptual adaptation to degraded speech, but current evidence is limited. We aimed replicate results previous studies establish the extent which visual speech can lead greater over time, extending existing real-time paradigm (i.e., without separate training period). A second aim was investigate whether eye gaze patterns towards mouth were related better perception, hypothesising that listeners who looked more at would show adaptation....