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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Autores principales:	Olivera Ilic, Vanja Kovic, Suzy J Styles
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:75f6ce47623442e5ba06837fb940b66b2021-11-18T08:40:54ZIn the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0083282https://doaj.org/article/75f6ce47623442e5ba06837fb940b66b2013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24376678/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Theoretical 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.Olivera IlicVanja KovicSuzy J StylesPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 12, p e83282 (2013)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Olivera Ilic Vanja Kovic Suzy J Styles In the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.
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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author	Olivera Ilic Vanja Kovic Suzy J Styles
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title	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_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_sort	in the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2013
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In the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.

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