TY - GEN
T1 - Words and non-speech sounds access lexical and semantic knowledge differently
AU - Chen, Peiyao
AU - Bartolotti, James
AU - Schroeder, Scott R.
AU - Rochanavibhata, Sirada
AU - Marian, Viorica
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the members of the Northwestern University Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group for helpful comments and input. This work was supported in part by grant NICHD 2R01 HD059858.
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© 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we examined the strength and speed of access to lexical knowledge (e.g., our representation of the word dog in our mental vocabulary) and semantic knowledge (e.g., our knowledge that a dog is associated with a leash) via both spoken words (e.g., “dog”) and characteristic sounds (e.g., a dog's bark). Results show that both spoken words and characteristic sounds activate lexical and semantic knowledge, but with different patterns. Spoken words activate lexical knowledge faster than characteristic sounds do, but with the same strength. In contrast, characteristic sounds access semantic knowledge stronger than spoken words do, but with the same speed. These findings reveal similarities and differences in the activation of conceptual knowledge by verbal and non-verbal means and advance our understanding of how auditory input is cognitively processed.
AB - Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we examined the strength and speed of access to lexical knowledge (e.g., our representation of the word dog in our mental vocabulary) and semantic knowledge (e.g., our knowledge that a dog is associated with a leash) via both spoken words (e.g., “dog”) and characteristic sounds (e.g., a dog's bark). Results show that both spoken words and characteristic sounds activate lexical and semantic knowledge, but with different patterns. Spoken words activate lexical knowledge faster than characteristic sounds do, but with the same strength. In contrast, characteristic sounds access semantic knowledge stronger than spoken words do, but with the same speed. These findings reveal similarities and differences in the activation of conceptual knowledge by verbal and non-verbal means and advance our understanding of how auditory input is cognitively processed.
KW - eye-tracking
KW - lexical competition
KW - semantic competition
KW - sound processing
KW - speech comprehension
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139567648
T3 - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
SP - 1470
EP - 1475
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
Y2 - 25 July 2018 through 28 July 2018
ER -