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Aging and Situation Models in Korean Sentence Comprehension

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2017, v.29 no.2, pp.189-196
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2017.29.2.007



& (2017). Aging and Situation Models in Korean Sentence Comprehension. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 29(2), 189-196, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2017.29.2.007

Abstract

Readers routinely activate perceptual representations while constructing and updating mental models of situations described by the text. For example, English younger and older adults were faster to verify pictures that matched the shape or orientation implied by the sentence than when there was a mismatch (i.e., the match effect). In this study, Korean younger and older adults were tested to examine the universal pattern of the mental simulation of shape in sentence comprehension. All participants read sentences describing an animal or object and were then presented with a picture of the animal or the object in question. They were asked to judge whether the pictured animal or object's shape was mentioned in the preceding sentence. Overall, the results showed that responses were more accurate and faster in the shape-matching condition for all participants than in the mismatching condition. However, there were no age-related differences in the match effect. Accordingly, these findings suggest that during reading, both Korean younger and older adult were similarly able to active the perceptual simulation of shape in the matching condition.

keywords
situation model, sentence processing, mental simulation, aging, embodied cognition, 상황모형, 문장처리, 심적 모사, 노화, 체화된 인지

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