Visuospatial or verbal-spatial codes? The different effect of two secondary tasks on the power-space associations during a semantic categorizing task

Cogn Process. 2023 Jun 27. doi: 10.1007/s10339-023-01149-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe power-space associations have been extensively studied as a possible way to reveal the nature of concept representations, while the visuospatial and verbal-spatial codes are two primary explanations for the phenomenon. In two experiments, we imposed either a visuospatial or a verbal secondary task during the semantic categorizing of power words to examine their respective roles. The results showed that retaining a letter but not a location concurrently interfered with the power-space association. The results suggested that the verbal-spatial codes might play a more fundamental role than the visuospatial codes in the power-space associations during the semantic categorizing of power words.PMID:37368058 | DOI:10.1007/s10339-023-01149-x

Source: Cognitive Processing - June 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Xueying Sai Xi Wu Xingjia Li Lei Zhu Source Type: research