What’s in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages

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	What’s in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages
	Liu, Chao; Tardif, Twila; Mai, Xiaoqin; Gehring, William J.; Simms, Nina; Luo, Yue-Jia; Twila Tardif
通讯作者邮箱	Twila@umich.edu
心理所单位排序	3
其他摘要	The linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that speakers of different languages perceive and conceptualize the world differently, but do their brains reflect these differences? In English, most nouns do not provide linguistic clues to their categories, whereas most Mandarin Chinese nouns provide explicit category information, either morphologically (e g, the morpheme "vehicle" che1 (sic) in the noun "train" huo3che1 (sic)) or orthographically (e g, the radical "bug" chong2 (sic) in the character for the noun "butterfly" hu2dre2 (sic)). When asked to judge the membership of atypical (e g, train) vs typical (e.g., car) pictorial exemplars of a category (e g, vehicle), English speakers (N = 26) showed larger N300 and N400 event-related potential (ERP) component differences, whereas Mandarin speakers (N = 27) showed no such differences. Further investigation with Mandarin speakers only (N = 22) found that it was the morphologically transparent items that did not show a typicality effect, whereas orthographically transparent items elicited moderate N300 and N400 effects In a follow-up study with English speakers only (N = 25), morphologically transparent items also showed different patterns of N300 and N400 activation than nontransparent items even for English speakers Together, these results demonstrate that even for pictorial stimuli, how and whether category information is embedded in object names affects the extent to which typicality is used in category judgments, as shown in N300 and N400 responses.
关键词	event-related potentials mandarin Chinese categorization typicality effect N300 N400 morphological and orthographical processing linguistic relativity hypothesis crosscultural
学科领域	认知神经科学
	2010
语种	英语
DOI	10.1002/hbm.20974
发表期刊	HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
卷号	31 期号:11 页码:1786-1801
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收录类别	SCI
资助项目	NSF:BCS-0350272; NIH:TW000035-07S1; Ministry of Education (PCSIRT): IRT0710; NSF China: 30930031; Center for Human Growth and Development
资助机构	NSF:BCS-0350272; NIH:TW000035-07S1; Ministry of Education (PCSIRT): IRT0710; NSF China: 30930031; Center for Human Growth and Development
引用统计	被引频次：16[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10078
专题	中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
通讯作者	Twila Tardif
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Chao,Tardif, Twila,Mai, Xiaoqin,等. What’s in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages[J]. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING,2010,31(11):1786-1801.
APA	Liu, Chao.,Tardif, Twila.,Mai, Xiaoqin.,Gehring, William J..,Simms, Nina.,...&Twila Tardif.(2010).What’s in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages.HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING,31(11),1786-1801.
MLA	Liu, Chao,et al."What’s in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages".HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING 31.11(2010):1786-1801.

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