@article{ref1,
title="Are sensory-motor relationships encoded ad hoc or by default? An ERP study",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2019",
author="Morera, Yurena and van der Meij, Maartje and de Vega, Manuel and Barber, Horacio A.",
volume="10",
number="",
pages="e966-e966",
abstract="In this event-related potentials study we tested whether sensory-motor relations between concrete words are encoded by default or only under explicit <i>ad hoc</i> instructions. In Exp. 1, participants were explicitly asked to encode sensory-motor relations (e.g., &quot;do the following objects fit in a pencil-cup?&quot;), while other possible semantic relations remained implicit. In Exp. 2, using the same materials other group of participants were explicitly asked to encode semantic relations (e.g., &quot;are the following objects related to a pencil-cup?&quot;), and the possible sensory-motor relations remained implicit. The N400 component was sensitive to semantic relations (e.g., &quot;desk&quot; related to &quot;pencil-cup&quot;) both under implicit (Exp. 1) and explicit instructions (Exp. 2). By contrast, most sensory-motor relations (e.g., &quot;pea&quot; fitting in &quot;pencil-cup&quot;) were encoded <i>ad hoc</i> under explicit instructions (Exp. 1). Interestingly some sensory-motor relations were also encoded implicitly, but only when they corresponded to &quot;functional&quot; actions associated with high-related objects (e.g., &quot;eraser&quot; fitting in &quot;pencil-cup&quot;) and occurring at a late time window (500-650 ms; Exp. 2), suggesting that this type of sensory-motor relations were encoding by default.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00966",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00966"
}