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SUBMITTER: van Dantzig S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3048290 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Dantzig Saskia S Cowell Rosemary A RA Zeelenberg René R Pecher Diane D
Behavior research methods 20110301 1
According to recent embodied cognition theories, mental concepts are represented by modality-specific sensory-motor systems. Much of the evidence for modality-specificity in conceptual processing comes from the property-verification task. When applying this and other tasks, it is important to select items based on their modality-exclusivity. We collected modality ratings for a set of 387 properties, each of which was paired with two different concepts, yielding a total of 774 concept-property it ...[more]