title: Do task-irrelevant direction-associated motion verbs affect action planning? Evidence from a Stroop paradigm.
abstract: Does simply seeing a word such as rise activate upward responses? The present study is concerned with bottom-up activation of motion-related experiential traces. Verbs referring to an upward or downward motion (e.g., rise/fall) were presented in one of four colors. Participants had to perform an upward or downward hand movement (experiments 1 and 2a/2b) or a stationary up or down located keypress response (experiment 3) according to font color. In all experiments, responding was faster if the word's immanent motion direction matched the response (e.g., upward/up response in case of rise); however, this effect was strongest in the experiments requiring an actual upward or downward response movement (experiments 1 and 2a/2b). These findings suggest bottom-up activation of motion-related experiential traces, even if the task does not demand lexical access or focusing on a word's meaning.
authors.affiliation: Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. carolin.dudschig@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Carolin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dudschig
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lachmair
authors.forename: Irmgard
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de la Vega
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Filippis
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaup
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009038:Motion; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D057190:Stroop Test; D055815:Young Adult