Abstract
Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J., & Zwaan, R. A. (in press). Effects of
negation, truth value, and delay on picture recognition after reading
affirmative and negative sentences. Proceedings of the 27th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Participants
read sentences of the type The X is (not)
above/below the Y and were subsequently presented with a picture of
the two
objects mentioned in the sentence, either in the correct or in the
incorrect
spatial relation. Participants judged as quickly as possible whether
both
depicted objects were mentioned in the sentence. A
negation-by-truth-value
interaction was observed when the picture was presented without delay;
a main
effect of truth value was observed when the delay was 1500 ms. Both
response-time patterns are well known from studies employing a
sentence-picture
verification task. Our results indicate that these findings are not
dependent
on verification. They moreover indicate that temporal characteristics
of the
task help explain why and when one or the other response-time pattern
emerges.
An account in terms of the experiential-simulations view of
comprehension is
discussed.
Barbara Kaup