{"title":"The action-sentence compatibility effect in third person action sentence comprehension.","authors":"Zhiwei Cai, Bing Qi, Ning Fan","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1562351","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the influence of object animacy and perspective priming on the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) in third-person action sentences using the sentence sensibility judgment paradigm. Experiment 1 showed that ACE occurred along the front-back axis when the object was an inanimate noun. Experiment 2 revealed that ACE appeared along the left-right axis when the object was a personal name. Experiment 3 demonstrated that ACE aligned with the action's direction under agent priming, while ACE shifted to the opposite direction under patient priming. These findings suggest that participants can flexibly simulate the perspective of an action based on spatial when processing third-person action sentences.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1562351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12175436/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Frontiers in Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1562351","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study investigates the influence of object animacy and perspective priming on the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) in third-person action sentences using the sentence sensibility judgment paradigm. Experiment 1 showed that ACE occurred along the front-back axis when the object was an inanimate noun. Experiment 2 revealed that ACE appeared along the left-right axis when the object was a personal name. Experiment 3 demonstrated that ACE aligned with the action's direction under agent priming, while ACE shifted to the opposite direction under patient priming. These findings suggest that participants can flexibly simulate the perspective of an action based on spatial when processing third-person action sentences.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.