title: Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing.
abstract: According to the Perceptual Symbols Theory of cognition (Barsalou, 1999), modality-specific simulations underlie the representation of concepts. A strong prediction of this view is that perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. In this study, participants performed a perceptual detection task and a conceptual property-verification task in alternation. Responses on the property-verification task were slower for those trials that were preceded by a perceptual trial in a different modality than for those that were preceded by a perceptual trial in the same modality. This finding of a modality-switch effect across perceptual processing and conceptual processing supports the hypothesis that perceptual and conceptual representations are partially based on the same systems.
authors.affiliation: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsEmory University.
authors.forename: Saskia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van Dantzig
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pecher
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zeelenberg
authors.forename: Lawrence W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Barsalou