Congruency Effect Between Articulation and Grasping in Native English Speakers

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1199" target="_blank" >10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1199</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Congruency Effect Between Articulation and Grasping in Native English Speakers

Original language description

Previous studies have shown congruency effects between specific speech articulations and manual grasping actions. For example, uttering the syllable [kα] facilitates power grip responses in terms of reaction time and response accuracy. A similar association of the syllable [ti] with precision grip has also been observed. As these congruency effects have been to date shown only for Finnish native speakers, this study explored whether the congruency effects generalize to native speakers of another language. The original experiments were therefore replicated with English participants (N=16). Several previous findings were reproduced, namely the association of syllables [kα] and [ke] with power grip and of [ti] and [te] with precision grip. However, the association of vowels [α] and [i] with power and precision grip, respectively, previously found for Finnish participants, was not significant for English speakers. This difference could be related to ambiguities of English orthography and pronunciation variations. It is possible that for English speakers seeing a certain written vowel activates several different phonological representations associated with that letter. If the congruency effects are based on interactions between specific phonological representations and grasp actions, this ambiguity might lead to weakening of the effects in the manner demonstrated here.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association

ISBN

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ISSN

2308-457X

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

1108-1112

Publisher name

Interspeech Conference

Place of publication

San Francisco

Event location

San Francisco

Event date

Sep 8, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000409394400230