The shape of words in the brain

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-28

  Kovic, Vanja ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^b   Westermann, Gert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associations; Categorisation; ERP; Labels; Pictures; Sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 71649111587     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Brackbill Y., and Little K.B. Factors determining the guessing of meanings of foreign words. Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology 54 (1957) 312-318
2. Brown R.W., Black A.H., and Horowitz A.E. Phonetic symbolism in natural languages. Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology 50 (1955) 388-393
3. Eddy M., Schmid A., and Holcomb P.J. Masked repetition priming and event-related brain potentials: A new approach for tracking the time-course of object perception. Psychophysiology 43 6 (2006) 564-568
4. Farmer T.A., Christiansen M.H., and Monaghan P. Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (2006) 12203-12208
5. Ganis G., Kutas M., and Sereno M.I. The search for "common sense": An electrophysiological study of the comprehension of words and pictures in reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 8 2 (1996) 89-106
6. Gebels G. An investigation of phonetic symbolism in different cultures. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 8 (1969) 310-312
7. Giard M.H., and Peronnet F. Auditory-visual integration during multimodal object recognition in humans: A behavioral and electro-physiological study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 11 (1999) 473-490
8. Hillyard S.A., Vogel E.K., and Luck S.J. Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 393 (1998) 1257-1270
9. Holcomb P.J., and McPherson W.B. Event-related potentials reflect semantic priming in an object decision task. Brain and Cognition 24 (1994) 259-276
10. Holland M.K., and Wertheimer M. Some physiognomic aspects of naming, or maluma, and takete revisited. Perceptual and Motor Skills 19 (1964) 111-117
11. Imai M., Kita S., Nagumo M., and Okada H. Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning. Cognition 109 1 (2008) 54-65
12. Köhler W. Gestalt psychology, an introduction to new concepts in modern psychology. 2nd ed. (1947), Liveright, NY (Original work published 1929)
13. Kunihira S. Effects of expressive voice on phonetic symbolism. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 10 (1971) 427-429
14. Kutas M., and Hillyard S.A. Event-related brain potentials to semantically inappropriate and surprisingly large words. Biological Psychology 11 (1980) 99-116
15. Luck S.J. An introduction to the event-related potential technique (2005), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
16. Maurer D., Pathman T., and Mondloch C.J. The shape of boubas: Sound-shape correspondences in toddlers and adults. Developmental Science 9 (2006) 316-322
17. Medin D.L., and Schafer M.M. A context theory of classification learning. Psychological Review 35 (1978) 207-238
18. Molholm S., Ritter W., Javitt D.C., and Foxe J.J. Multisensory visual-auditory object recognition in humans: A high-density electrical mapping study. Cerebral Cortex 14 4 (2004) 452-465
19. Molholm S., Ritter W., Murray M.M., Javitt D.C., Schroeder C.E., and Foxe J.J. Multisensory auditory-visual interactions during early sensory processing in humans: A high-density electrical mapping study. Cognitive Brain Research 14 1 (2002) 115-128
20. Nygaard L.C., Cook A.E., and Namy L.L. Sound to meaning correspondences facilitate word learning. Cognition 112 1 (2009) 181-186
21. Ramachandran V.S., and Hubbard E.M. Synaesthesia - A window into perception, thought and language. Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (2001) 3-34
22. Rehder B., and Hoffman A.B. Eyetracking and selective attention in category learning. Cognitive Psychology 51 (2005) 1-41
23. Sapir E. A study in phonetic symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology 12 (1929) 225-239
24. Saussure F.de. Course in General Linguistics (W. Baskin Trans.) (1959), The Philosophical Library, Inc., New York (Original work published 1922)
25. Shams L., Iwaki S., Chawla A., and Bhattacharya J. Early modulation of visual cortex by sound: An MEG study. Neuroscience Letters 378 (2005) 76-81
26. Thompson R.L., Vinson D.P., and Vigliocco G. The link between form and meaning in American Sign Language: Lexical processing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Memory and Cognition 35 (2009) 550-557
27. Wertheimer M. The relation between the sound of a word and its meaning. The American Journal of Psychology 71 (1958) 412-415
28. Westermann G., and Miranda E. A new model of sensorimotor coupling in the development of speech. Brain and Language 89 (2004) 393-400
29. Widmann, A., Gruber, T., Kujala, T., Tervaniemi, M., & Schroger, E. (2007). Binding Symbols and Sounds: Evidence from Event-Related Oscillatory Gamma-Band Activity. Cerebral Cortex (Epub ahead of print).
30. Widmann A., Kujala T., Tervaniemi M., Kujala A., and Schroger E. From symbols to sounds: Visual symbolic information activates sound representations. Psychophysiology 41 5 (2004) 709-715
31. Yuval-Greenberg S., and Deouell L.Y. What you see is not (Always) what you hear: Induced gamma band responses reflect cross-modal interactions in familiar object recognition. Journal of Neuroscience 27 5 (2007) 1090-1096