Grounding language in the neglected senses of touch, taste, and smell.

IF 2.6 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY
Cognitive Neuropsychology Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Epub Date: 2019-06-23 DOI:10.1080/02643294.2019.1623188
Laura J Speed, Asifa Majid
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Abstract

Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such theories have focused predominantly on the dominant senses of sight and hearing. Relatively fewer studies have assessed mental simulation within touch, taste, and smell, even though they are critically implicated in communication for important domains, such as health and wellbeing. We review work that sheds light on whether perceptual activation from lesser studied modalities contribute to meaning in language. We critically evaluate data from behavioural, imaging, and cross-cultural studies. We conclude that evidence for sensorimotor simulation in touch, taste, and smell is weak. Comprehending language related to these senses may instead rely on simulation of emotion, as well as crossmodal simulation of the "higher" senses of vision and audition. Overall, the data suggest the need for a refinement of embodiment theories, as not all sensory modalities provide equally strong evidence for mental simulation.

把语言建立在被忽视的触觉、味觉和嗅觉上。
有根据的理论认为,感觉运动激活对语言处理至关重要。这些理论主要集中在视觉和听觉上。相对较少的研究评估了触觉、味觉和嗅觉的心理模拟,尽管它们在健康和幸福等重要领域的交流中有着重要的影响。我们回顾了工作,阐明了是否从较少研究的模式感知激活有助于语言的意义。我们批判性地评估来自行为、影像和跨文化研究的数据。我们的结论是,触觉、味觉和嗅觉的感觉运动模拟证据不足。理解与这些感官相关的语言可能依赖于情感模拟,以及视觉和听觉“高级”感官的跨模态模拟。总的来说,这些数据表明需要对具体化理论进行改进,因为并非所有的感觉模式都能为心理模拟提供同样强有力的证据。
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来源期刊
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Cognitive Neuropsychology 医学-心理学
CiteScore
5.50
自引率
11.80%
发文量
23
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Cognitive Neuropsychology is of interest to cognitive scientists and neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, psycholinguists, speech pathologists, physiotherapists, and psychiatrists.
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