 |
| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002): |
Differences in word associations to pictures and words.
Full Abstract
Normal subjects were asked to produce the "first word that comes to mind" in response to pictures or words that differed with respect to manipulability and animacy. In separate analyses across subjects and items, normal subjects produced a significantly higher proportion of action words (that is, verbs) to pictures as compared to words, to manipulable as compared to non-manipulable stimuli and to inanimate as compared to animate stimuli. The largest proportion of action words was elicited by pictures of non-living, manipulable objects. Furthermore, associates to words matched standard word associates significantly more often than those elicited by pictures. These data suggest that pictures and words initially contact different forms of conceptual information and are consistent with an account of semantic organization that assumes that information is distributed across different domains reflecting the mode of acquisition of that knowledge.
Author information
Author/s: Saffran, Eleanor M (EM); Coslett, H Branch (HB); Keener, Matthew T (MT);
Affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Grants: DC 00191 (Agency:NIDCD NIH HHS) ; DC 02754 (Agency:NIDCD NIH HHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Neuropsychologia (Neuropsychologia), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-; vol 41 (issue 11) : pp 1541-6
Dates: Created 2003/07/09; Completed 2003/09/24; Revised 2009/11/11;
PMID: 12849772, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/11/2009, IMS Date: )
Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.
External Links for this article
(including full text providers, if available):
Click Electronic Full-text Provider Links to see options for finding the electronic full text links to this article. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text. See our FAQ for information on finding FREE full text articles.
This article may also be located in paper journal collections available in many libraries. Use the Journal and Publication Information above to find the full article.
MeSH headings (categories)
This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.
Related articles
These are the highest related articles currently in the database:
- Instruction effects in implicit artificial grammar learning: a preference for grammaticality.
11 May 2008 - Memory and the Korsakoff syndrome: not remembering what is remembered. 24 Sep 2006
- Lack of dopaminergic modulation of cognitive flexibility. 29 Nov 2007
- The associative processes involved in faces-proper names versus animals-common names binding: a comparative ERP study. 27 Apr 2007
- Handedness is related to memory via hemispheric interaction: evidence from paired associate recall and source memory tasks. 29 Jun 2008
- ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection processes in visual associative recognition.
15 Aug 2007 - Thematic role assignment in patients with Broca's aphasia: sentence-picture matching electrified. 24 Sep 2006
- Seeing red primes tomato: evidence for comparable priming from colour and colour name primes to semantically related word targets. 24 Sep 2006
- How long does it take to find a cause? An online investigation of implicit causality in sentence production. 30 Aug 2006
- The eyes remember it: oculography and pupillometry during recollection in three amnesic patients. 30 Oct 2007
Related Article Map
8/30/2006
6/29/2008
Higher Relevance Score (15)
Lower Relevance Score (12)
Legend: - FREE Full text Article. - Abstract only. 
- Title only. More help.
See a large map of 100+ related articles.