Cooking from cold to hot: goal-directedness in simulation and language
-
Tinka Welke
,
Susanne Raisig
Abstract
The present study explores the processing of temporal information in event knowledge by focusing on the transition from an earlier, source state to a later, goal state. Participants were presented with an event verb followed by antonymous adjectives or adverbs denoting an earlier state and a later state. The states were presented either chronologically (to cook: cold – hot) or inversely (to cook: hot – cold) with regard to the denoted event. Participants were asked to identify either the earlier or the later state. We found that later states are identified faster and more accurately than earlier states. Later states presented chronologically were identified even more quickly than later states presented inversely. We attribute our results to the fact that directedness towards the goal state is a general principle of cognition which plays a fundamental role in language and in simulation, whereby language processing provides faster and more direct access to goals even than simulation.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Cooking from cold to hot: goal-directedness in simulation and language
- Extending the dominion of effective control – Its applicability to mood choice in Spanish and Portuguese
- Recycling utterances: A speaker's guide to sentence processing
- What's in a dialogic construction? A constructional approach to polysemy and the grammar of challenge
- Manners of human gait: a crosslinguistic event-naming study
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Cooking from cold to hot: goal-directedness in simulation and language
- Extending the dominion of effective control – Its applicability to mood choice in Spanish and Portuguese
- Recycling utterances: A speaker's guide to sentence processing
- What's in a dialogic construction? A constructional approach to polysemy and the grammar of challenge
- Manners of human gait: a crosslinguistic event-naming study
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
