We evaluated whether movement modulates the semantic processing of words. To this end, we used homograph words with two meanings, one associated with hand movements (e.g., ‘abanico’, ‘fan’ in Spanish) or foot movements (‘bota’, ‘boot’ in Spanish), and the other not associated with movement (‘abanico’, ‘range’ in Spanish; ‘bota’, ‘wineskin’ in Spanish). After the homograph, three words were presented, and participants were asked to choose the word related to one of the two homograph meanings. The words could be either related to the motor meaning of the homograph (‘fan-heat’), to the non-motor meaning of the homograph (‘range-possibility’) or unrelated (‘fan-phone’). The task was performed without movement (simple condition) or by performing hand (Experiment 1) and foot (Experiment 2) movements. Compared with the simple condition, the performance of movement oriented the preference towards the motor meaning of the homograph. This pattern of results confirms that movement modulates word comprehension.

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运动处理调节单词理解

我们评估了运动是否会调节单词的语义处理。为此，我们使用了具有两种含义的同形异义词，一种与手部运动相关（例如，西班牙语中的“abanico”、“fan”）或脚部运动（西班牙语中的“bota”、“boot”），另一种不相关带有运动（西班牙语中的“abanico”、“range”；西班牙语中的“bota”、“wineskin”）。在同形异义词之后，出现了三个单词，要求参与者选择与两个同形异义词之一相关的单词。这些词可能与同形异义词的运动含义（“fan-heat”）相关，也可能与同形异义词的非运动含义（“range-possibility”）或不相关（“fan-phone”）有关。该任务是在没有运动的情况下（简单条件）或通过执行手（实验 1）和脚（实验 2）运动来执行的。与简单条件相比，运动的表现将偏好导向同形异义词的运动意义。这种结果模式证实了运动会调节单词理解。