Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception

Abstract Linguistic labels exert a particularly strong top-down influence on perception. The potency of this influence has been ascribed to their ability to evoke category-diagnostic features of concepts. In doing this, they facilitate the formation of a perceptual template concordant with those fea...

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Autores principales:	Ksenija Slivac, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Peter Hagoort, Monique Flecken
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c0a4c6b352cd4c9196cc9ed64eb0e0232021-12-02T19:02:30ZLinguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception10.1038/s41598-021-96649-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c0a4c6b352cd4c9196cc9ed64eb0e0232021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96649-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Linguistic labels exert a particularly strong top-down influence on perception. The potency of this influence has been ascribed to their ability to evoke category-diagnostic features of concepts. In doing this, they facilitate the formation of a perceptual template concordant with those features, effectively biasing perceptual activation towards the labelled category. In this study, we employ a cueing paradigm with moving, point-light stimuli across three experiments, in order to examine how the number of biological motion features (form and kinematics) encoded in lexical cues modulates the efficacy of lexical top-down influence on perception. We find that the magnitude of lexical influence on biological motion perception rises as a function of the number of biological motion-relevant features carried by both cue and target. When lexical cues encode multiple biological motion features, this influence is robust enough to mislead participants into reporting erroneous percepts, even when a masking level yielding high performance is used.Ksenija SlivacAlexis Hervais-AdelmanPeter HagoortMonique FleckenNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Ksenija Slivac Alexis Hervais-Adelman Peter Hagoort Monique Flecken Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
description	Abstract Linguistic labels exert a particularly strong top-down influence on perception. The potency of this influence has been ascribed to their ability to evoke category-diagnostic features of concepts. In doing this, they facilitate the formation of a perceptual template concordant with those features, effectively biasing perceptual activation towards the labelled category. In this study, we employ a cueing paradigm with moving, point-light stimuli across three experiments, in order to examine how the number of biological motion features (form and kinematics) encoded in lexical cues modulates the efficacy of lexical top-down influence on perception. We find that the magnitude of lexical influence on biological motion perception rises as a function of the number of biological motion-relevant features carried by both cue and target. When lexical cues encode multiple biological motion features, this influence is robust enough to mislead participants into reporting erroneous percepts, even when a masking level yielding high performance is used.
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author	Ksenija Slivac Alexis Hervais-Adelman Peter Hagoort Monique Flecken
author_facet	Ksenija Slivac Alexis Hervais-Adelman Peter Hagoort Monique Flecken
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title	Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
title_short	Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
title_full	Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
title_fullStr	Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
title_full_unstemmed	Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
title_sort	linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/c0a4c6b352cd4c9196cc9ed64eb0e023
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Linguistic labels cue biological motion perception and misperception

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