We investigated the conceptual processing of nouns referring to objects characterized by a highly typical color and orientation. We used a go/no-go task in which we asked participants to categorize each noun as referring or not to natural entities (e.g., animals) after a selective adaptation of color-edge neurons in the posterior LV4 region of the visual cortex was induced by means of a McCollough effect procedure. This manipulation affected categorization: the green-vertical adaptation led to slower responses than the green-horizontal adaptation, regardless of the specific color and orientation of the to-be-categorized noun. This result suggests that the conceptual processing of natural entities may entail the activation of modality-specific neural channels with weights proportional to the reliability of the signals produced by these channels during actual perception. This finding is discussed with reference to the debate about the grounded cognition view

Neural Adaptation Effects in Conceptual Processing / Marino, Barbara; Anna M. Borghi, * Anna M. Borghi; Luca Gemmi, 4; Cristina Cacciari, 2; Riggio, Lucia. - In: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 2076-328X. - 5:3(2015), pp. 353-371. [10.3390/bs5030353]

Neural Adaptation Effects in Conceptual Processing.

MARINO, BARBARA
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RIGGIO, Lucia
2015-01-01

Abstract

We investigated the conceptual processing of nouns referring to objects characterized by a highly typical color and orientation. We used a go/no-go task in which we asked participants to categorize each noun as referring or not to natural entities (e.g., animals) after a selective adaptation of color-edge neurons in the posterior LV4 region of the visual cortex was induced by means of a McCollough effect procedure. This manipulation affected categorization: the green-vertical adaptation led to slower responses than the green-horizontal adaptation, regardless of the specific color and orientation of the to-be-categorized noun. This result suggests that the conceptual processing of natural entities may entail the activation of modality-specific neural channels with weights proportional to the reliability of the signals produced by these channels during actual perception. This finding is discussed with reference to the debate about the grounded cognition view
2015
Neural Adaptation Effects in Conceptual Processing / Marino, Barbara; Anna M. Borghi, * Anna M. Borghi; Luca Gemmi, 4; Cristina Cacciari, 2; Riggio, Lucia. - In: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 2076-328X. - 5:3(2015), pp. 353-371. [10.3390/bs5030353]
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