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Title: | The shape of words in the brain | Authors: | Kovic V. Plunkett K. Westermann G. |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2010 | Journal: | Cognition | Abstract: | The principle of arbitrariness in language assumes that there is no intrinsic relationship between linguistic signs and their referents. However, a growing body of sound-symbolism research suggests the existence of some naturally-biased mappings between phonological properties of labels and perceptual properties of their referents (Maurer, Pathman, & Mondloch, 2006). We present new behavioural and neurophysiological evidence for the psychological reality of sound-symbolism. In a categorisation task that captures the processes involved in natural language interpretation, participants were faster to identify novel objects when label-object mappings were sound-symbolic than when they were not. Moreover, early negative EEG-waveforms indicated a sensitivity to sound-symbolic label-object associations (within 200 ms of object presentation), highlighting the non-arbitrary relation between the objects and the labels used to name them. This sensitivity to sound-symbolic label-object associations may reflect a more general process of auditory-visual feature integration where properties of auditory stimuli facilitate a mapping to specific visual features. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | URI: | https://open.uns.ac.rs/handle/123456789/11715 | ISSN: | 00100277 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.016 |
Appears in Collections: | Naučne i umetničke publikacije |
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