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The English lexicon mirrors functional brain activation for a sensory hierarchy dominated by vision and audition: Point-counterpoint
Journal of Neurolinguistics ( IF 2 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100895
Jamie Reilly 1, 2 , Maurice Flurie 1, 2 , Jonathan E Peelle 3
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The meanings of most open class words are suffused with sensory and affective features. A word such as beach, for example, evokes polymodal associations ranging from gritty sand (tactile) and crashing waves (auditory) to the distinctive smell of sunscreen (olfactory). Aristotle argued for a hierarchy of the senses where vision and audition eclipse the lesser modalities of odor, taste, and touch. A direct test of Aristotle's premise was recently made possible with the establishment of the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (2019), a crowdsourced database cataloging sensorimotor salience for nearly 40,000 English words. Neurosynth, a metanalytic database of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, can potentially confirm if Aristotle's sensory hierarchy is reflected in functional activation within the human brain. We correlated sensory salience of English words as assessed by subjective ratings of vision, audition, olfaction, touch, and gustation (Lancaster Ratings) with volumes of cortical activation for each of these respective sensory modalities (Neurosynth). English word ratings reflected the following sensory hierarchy: vision > audition > haptic > olfaction ≈ gustation. This linguistic hierarchy nearly perfectly correlated with voxel counts of functional activation maps by each sensory modality (Pearson r=.99). These findings are grossly consistent with Aristotle's hierarchy of the senses. We discuss implications and counterevidence from other natural languages.

中文翻译:

英语词典反映了由视觉和听觉主导的感官层次的功能性大脑激活:点对位

大多数公开课词的含义都充满了感官和情感特征。例如,像海滩这样的词会唤起多模态联想,从坚韧的沙子(触觉)和汹涌的海浪(听觉)到防晒霜的独特气味(嗅觉)。亚里士多德主张感官的等级制度,在这种等级制度中,视觉和听觉掩盖了气味、味觉和触觉等次要形式。随着兰开斯特感觉运动规范(2019 年)的建立,最近对亚里士多德的前提进行了直接测试,这是一个众包数据库,对近 40,000 个英语单词的感觉运动显着性进行编目。Neurosynth 是一个功能磁共振成像研究的元分析数据库,它可以潜在地证实亚里士多德的感官层次是否反映在人脑的功能激活中。我们将通过视觉、听觉、嗅觉、触觉和味觉的主观评分(兰开斯特评分)评估的英语单词的感官显着性与这些各自的感觉模式(Neurosynth)的皮层激活量相关联。英语单词评分反映了以下感官层次:视觉>听觉>触觉>嗅觉≈味觉。这种语言层次几乎与每种感官模式的功能激活图的体素计数完全相关(Pearson r=.99)。这些发现与亚里士多德的感官等级体系大体一致。我们讨论了其他自然语言的影响和反证。和味觉(兰开斯特评级),其中每种感官方式(神经合成器)都有大量的皮层激活。英语单词评分反映了以下感官层次:视觉>听觉>触觉>嗅觉≈味觉。这种语言层次几乎与每种感官模式的功能激活图的体素计数完全相关(Pearson r=.99)。这些发现与亚里士多德的感官等级体系大体一致。我们讨论了其他自然语言的影响和反证。和味觉(兰开斯特评级),其中每种感官方式(神经合成器)都有大量的皮层激活。英语单词评分反映了以下感官层次:视觉>听觉>触觉>嗅觉≈味觉。这种语言层次几乎与每种感官模式的功能激活图的体素计数完全相关(Pearson r=.99)。这些发现与亚里士多德的感官等级体系大体一致。我们讨论了其他自然语言的影响和反证。这种语言层次几乎与每种感官模式的功能激活图的体素计数完全相关(Pearson r=.99)。这些发现与亚里士多德的感官等级体系大体一致。我们讨论了其他自然语言的影响和反证。这种语言层次几乎与每种感官模式的功能激活图的体素计数完全相关(Pearson r=.99)。这些发现与亚里士多德的感官等级体系大体一致。我们讨论了其他自然语言的影响和反证。
更新日期:2020-08-01
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