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In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification
Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test – with category-specific effects driven by characteristics...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083282 |
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author | Ilic, Olivera Kovic, Vanja Styles, Suzy J. |
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description | Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test – with category-specific effects driven by characteristics of test stimuli other than animacy per se. In this study, we pit animacy against feature structure (intra-item variability), in a picture-word matching task. For unimpaired adults, regardless of whether objects were from animate (mammals; insects) or inanimate (clothes; musical instruments) superordinate categories, participants were faster to match basic level labels with objects from categories with low intra-item variability (mammals; clothes) than from categories with high intra-item variability (insects; instruments). Thus, pitting animacy against variability allowed us to clarify that observable differences in processing speed between animals and instruments are systematically driven by the intra-item variability of the superordinate categories, and not by animacy itself. |
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spelling | pubmed-38697672013-12-27 In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification Ilic, Olivera Kovic, Vanja Styles, Suzy J. PLoS One Research Article Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test – with category-specific effects driven by characteristics of test stimuli other than animacy per se. In this study, we pit animacy against feature structure (intra-item variability), in a picture-word matching task. For unimpaired adults, regardless of whether objects were from animate (mammals; insects) or inanimate (clothes; musical instruments) superordinate categories, participants were faster to match basic level labels with objects from categories with low intra-item variability (mammals; clothes) than from categories with high intra-item variability (insects; instruments). Thus, pitting animacy against variability allowed us to clarify that observable differences in processing speed between animals and instruments are systematically driven by the intra-item variability of the superordinate categories, and not by animacy itself. Public Library of Science 2013-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3869767/ /pubmed/24376678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083282 Text en © 2013 Ilic et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ilic, Olivera Kovic, Vanja Styles, Suzy J. In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title | In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title_full | In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title_fullStr | In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title_full_unstemmed | In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title_short | In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification |
title_sort | in the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083282 |
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