Factives at hand: When presupposition mode affects motor response.

Reinecke, Robert; Nazir, Tatjana; Carvallo, Sarah; Jayez, Jacques

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1037/xge0001167

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/102392

Title :

Factives at hand: When presupposition mode affects motor response.

Author(s) :

Reinecke, Robert [Auteur]
Nazir, Tatjana [Auteur]

Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Carvallo, Sarah [Auteur]
Jayez, Jacques [Auteur]

Journal title :

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Abbreviated title :

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volume number :

151

Pages :

p.2173-2194

Publisher :

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication date :

2022-09

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

It is well established that the processing of hand-, mouth-, and foot-related action terms can activate areas of the motor cortex that are involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. In the present ...
Show more >It is well established that the processing of hand-, mouth-, and foot-related action terms can activate areas of the motor cortex that are involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. In the present study, the sensitivity of these motor structures to language processes was exploited to test linguistic theories on information layering. Human languages possess a variety of linguistic devices, so-called presupposition triggers, that allow us to convey background information without asserting it. A statement such as “Marie stopped smoking” presupposes, without asserting it, that Marie used to smoke. How such presupposed information is represented in the brain is not yet understood. Using a grip-force sensor that allows capturing motor brain activity during language processing, we investigated effects of information layering by comparing asserted information that is known to trigger motor activity (“In the living room, Peter irons his shirt”) with information embedded under a presuppositional factive verb construction (“Louis knows that Peter irons his shirt”; Experiment 1) and a nonfactive verb construction (“Louis believes that Peter irons his shirt”; Experiment 2). Furthermore, we examined whether the projection behavior of a factive verb construction modulates grip force under negation (“Louis does not know that Peter irons his shirt”; Experiment 3). The data show that only the presupposed action verb in affirmative contexts (Experiment 1) triggers an increase in grip force comparable to the one of asserted action verbs, whereas the nonfactive complement and projection structure show a weaker response (Experiments 2 and 3). While the first two experiments seem to confirm the sensitivity of the grip-force response to the construction of a plausible situation or event model, in which the motor action is represented as taking place, the third one raises the question of how robust this hypothesis is and how it can take the specificity of projection into account.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

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Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Action, Vision et Apprentissage (AVA)

Submission date :

2024-01-16T13:27:36Z
2024-02-12T12:38:37Z

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