Presentation modality interacts with the effect of visual perceptual strength on word processing

Abstract

Abstract several integrative measures of concreteness were derived. We looked at relations among the collected measures and tested for the predictive power regarding general concreteness rating and processing time. In addition to demonstrating overall relatedness of various measures of concreteness, of concreteness as traditionally operationalized. This is in accordance with some previous research and goes in line with Embodied Cognition accounts. However, the very measures that were the best predictors of concreteness and reaction time in our research are not the measures that were the best predictors in previous research, pointing to the need for mega-studies or larger datasets.