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The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect in ASL: the role of semantics vs. perception
2014
Language and Cognition
abstractEmbodied theories of cognition propose that humans use sensorimotor systems in processing language. The Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) refers to the finding that motor responses are facilitated after comprehending sentences that imply movement in the same direction. In sign languages there is a potential conflict between sensorimotor systems and linguistic semantics: movement away from the signer is perceived as motion toward the comprehender. We examined whether perceptual
doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.40
pmid:26052352
pmcid:PMC4455545
fatcat:6okegulx7bctvkq2pt3eb2r6yq