| The role of language in memory for actions. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 12528427 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Languages differ with respect to how aspects of motion events tend to be lexicalized. English typically conflates MOTION with MANNER, but Japanese and Spanish typically do not. We report a set of experiments that assessed the effect of this cross-linguistic difference on participants' decisions in a similarity-judgment task about scenes containing novel animations as stimuli. In Experiment 1, which required participants to encode the stimuli briefly into memory, we observed a language effect; in Experiment 2, which required participants to analyze the same stimuli, but not remember them, the language effect disappeared. Hence, these experiments reveal a task-dependent effect, which, we argue, points to working memory as the source of the language effect observed in Experiment 1 and, potentially, other experiments that have shown a linguistic relativity effect. |
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Authors:
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Matthew Finkbeiner; Janet Nicol; Delia Greth; Kumiko Nakamura |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of psycholinguistic research Volume: 31 ISSN: 0090-6905 ISO Abbreviation: J Psycholinguist Res Publication Date: 2002 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2003-01-16 Completed Date: 2003-04-18 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0333506 Medline TA: J Psycholinguist Res Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 447-57 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0025, USA. msf@u.arizona.edu |
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Descriptor/Qualifier:
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Humans Language* Linguistics Memory* Psychomotor Performance* |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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DC-01409/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS |
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