Action Channel Switching Costs for Concrete and Abstract Mandarin Verb Comprehension

Three experiments using a modality-switch paradigm investigate whether readers engage in embodied mental simulation when comprehending verbs. The 677.7 KB document, authored by Zhiwei Cai and last updated in April 2026, presents results showing action channel switching costs for different verb-noun phrase types. The findings support the Perceptual Symbol Systems theory of language grounding.

Use Cases

• Testing theories of embodied cognition based on the modality-switch paradigm described.
• Analyzing perceptual-motor simulation in language comprehension based on action channel (eye, mouth, hand) data.
• Comparing the grounding of abstract versus concrete verbs based on the experimental results.
• Investigating channel-specific switch costs as evidence for the Perceptual Symbol Systems theory.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a specific, peer-reviewed experimental paradigm (modality-switch).
• Explicitly tests a major theoretical framework (Perceptual Symbol Systems theory).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (677.7 KB), indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Experimental data from a modality-switch paradigm across three studies.

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Last updated 2026-04-28 04:25:02; freshness should be verified.

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