Аннотация
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
LIST OF TABLES 6
LIST OF FIGURES 6
INTRODUCTION 6
1.1. Language and cognition 7
1.1.1 Words and concepts 7
1.1.2 Classical view on cognition 8
1.1.3 Embodied view on cognition 10
1.1.4 Challenges for embodied cognition research 16
1.1.5 Hybrid accounts 18
1.2. Normative studies in psycholinguistics 22
1.3. Interoception 27
1.4 Research Questions and Hypotheses 34
METHODS 36
2.2 Recruitment 36
2.3 Participants 38
2.5 Concreteness ratings 42
2.6 Interoceptive ratings 45
2.7 Lexical decision 46
RESULTS 50
3.1 Data preparation 50
3.2 Reliability for concreteness ratings 55
3.3 Reliability for interoception ratings 58
3.4 Study 1 - Interoceptive strength in different word types 61
3.5 Study 2 - Lexical decision task 64
CONCLUSION 70
4.1 Discussion 70
4.1.1 Reliability of concreteness and interoception strength norms 70
4.1.2 Interoceptive semantics in different groups of words 71
4.1.3 Effects of interoception and concreteness ratings on word processing 72
4.2 Strengths and limitations 75
4.3 Future directions 78
4.4 Conclusion 80
REFERENCE LIST 82
APPENDIX A 90
APPENDIX B 93
The chapter describes the theoretical background for the present psycholinguistic study. Section 1.1 outlines main characteristics of language-cognition interplay, which are relevant for the present research. Namely, it displays the relationship between words and concepts and considers different views on the nature of concepts from perspectives of classical and embodied cognition. Section 1.2 presents normative studies as a valuable methodology is psycholinguistic research, emphasizing advantages of perceptual norms as a dimension. Section 1.3 brings the current state of research on interoceptive experiences in psychological and linguistic studies. It emphasizes the novelty that the study of interoceptive semantics brings and discusses its potential applications in both cognitive linguistics and psychological studies.
This research employed two psycholinguistic methods utilizing customized word stimuli to investigate the presence of interoceptive semantics in specific groups of abstract Russian words and its impact on word processing. Concreteness and interoceptive strength ratings were obtained for emotion, mental, and control words. The results indicated statistically significant differences in interoceptive strength among emotion, mental, and random word groups, providing support for the presence of interoceptive semantics in emotion words, as previously observed in other languages, and revealing the presence of interoceptive semantics in mental words. Notably, highly interoceptive words were found to be predominantly abstract, suggesting a grounding of certain abstract words in physical senses, specifically interoceptive experiences.
However, the study failed to reveal an effect of concreteness and interoception strength ratings on word processing. This can be attributed to the strict requirements of the selected statistical method and the unexpected characteristics of the variable distributions that emerged during the research design. These limitations were thoroughly discussed, along with suggestions for methodological improvements in future studies.
Overall, the study represents the first attempt to investigate interoceptive semantics in the Russian language using a psycholinguistic normative approach and provides the foundation for further research. The psycholinguistic norms obtained in the current research can be applied for testing experimental hypotheses in other psycholinguistic studies. Given the nature of interoception modality, the development of this research topic can be useful not only for psycholinguistics studies, but also in clinical psychology.
