دورية أكاديمية

A Body Map Beyond Perceptual Experience

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العنوان: A Body Map Beyond Perceptual Experience
المؤلفون: Gatti, Daniele, Günther, Fritz, Rinaldi, Luca
المصدر: Journal of Cognition; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024); 22 ; 2514-4820
بيانات النشر: Ubiquity Press
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Journal of Cognition
مصطلحات موضوعية: mental representations, body representation, distributional semantics, semantic memory
الوصف: The human body is perhaps the most ubiquitous and salient visual stimulus that we encounter in our daily lives. Given the prevalence of images of human bodies in natural scene statistics, it is no surprise that our mental representations of the body are thought to strongly originate from visual experience. Yet, little is still known about high-level cognitive representations of the body. Here, we retrieved a body map from natural language, taking this as a window into high-level cognitive processes. We first extracted a matrix of distances between body parts from natural language data and employed this matrix to extrapolate a body map. To test the effectiveness of this high-level body map, we then conducted a series of experiments in which participants were asked to classify the distance between pairs of body parts, presented either as words or images. We found that the high-level body map was systematically activated when participants were making these distance judgments. Crucially, the linguistic map explained participants’ performance over and above the visual body map, indicating that the former cannot be simply conceived as a by-product of perceptual experience. These findings, therefore, establish the existence of a behaviorally relevant, high-level representation of the human body.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf; text/xml
اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/347/1077Test; https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/347/1078Test; https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/347Test
DOI: 10.5334/joc.347
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.347Test
https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/347Test
حقوق: Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.66A637B3
قاعدة البيانات: BASE