That means something to me: How linguistic and emotional experience affect the acquisition, representation, and processing of novel abstract concepts.

IF 2.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-13 DOI:10.1037/xlm0001236

Linda Espey, Marta Ghio, Christian Bellebaum, Laura Bechtold

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Abstract

We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the novel abstract concepts. Feature production after training showed that specifically emotion features enriched the emotional concepts' representations. Unexpectedly, for participants engaging in vivid mental imagery during training a higher semantic richness of the acquired emotional concepts slowed down lexical decisions. Rephrasing, in turn, promoted a better learning and processing performance than imagery, probably due to stronger established lexical associations. Our results confirm the importance of emotional and linguistic experience and additional deep lexico-semantic processing for the acquisition, representation, and processing of abstract concepts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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这对我来说意义重大：语言和情感体验如何影响新颖抽象概念的获取、表征和处理。

我们采用了一种新颖的语言训练范式来研究新颖的情感和中性抽象概念的习得、表征和处理对经验的依赖性。在五次训练中，受试者对语言材料进行了心理想象（32 人）或词汇语义重述（34 人），并成功学会了新的抽象概念。训练后的特征生成表明，具体的情感特征丰富了情感概念的表征。意想不到的是，对于在训练过程中进行生动心理想象的参与者来说，所获得的情感概念的语义丰富度越高，词汇决策的速度就越慢。反过来，与意象相比，复述促进了更好的学习和处理表现，这可能是由于建立了更强的词汇关联。我们的研究结果证实了情感和语言经验以及额外的深层词汇语义处理对抽象概念的习得、表征和处理的重要性。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

3.80%

发文量

163

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.