Reading action word affects the visual perception of biological motion

 

 

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Reading action word affects the visual perception of biological motion

via ScienceDirect Publication: Acta Psychologica on 4/22/11

Publication year: 2011
Source: Acta Psychologica, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 April 2011
Christel, Bidet-Ildei , Laurent, Sparrow , Yann, Coello
In the present study, we investigate whether reading an action-word can influence subsequent visual perception of biological motion. The participant's task was to perceptually judge whether a human action identifiable in the biological motion of a point-light display embedded in a high density mask was present or not in the visual sequence, which lasted for 633ms on average. Prior to the judgement task, participants were exposed to an abstract verb or an action verb for 500ms, which was related to the human action according to a congruent or incongruent semantic relation. Data analysis showed that correct judgements were not affected...
 Research highlights: ► Action observation and action production rely on shared representations. ► Action-related language and action production rely also on shared representations. ► We examined whether prior exposition to action words affects action observation. ► Detection of masked human action is facilitated when primed by congruent action word. ► This agrees with shared representations for action observation and action-related words.

 

 

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