Abstract
We examined the influence of print exposure on the body-object interaction (BOI) effect in visual word recognition. High print exposure readers and low print exposure readers either made semantic categorizations (“Is the word easily imageable?”; Experiment 1) or phonological lexical decisions (“Does the item sound like a real English word?”; Experiment 2). The results from Experiment 1 showed that there was a larger BOI effect for the low print exposure readers than for the high print exposure readers in semantic categorization, though an effect was observed for both print exposure groups. However, the results from Experiment 2 showed that the BOI effect was observed only for the high print exposure readers in phonological lexical decision. The results of the present study suggest that print exposure does influence the BOI effect, and that this influence varies as a function of task demands.
Highlights
The body-object interaction (BOI) variable measures perceptions of the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word’s referent (Siakaluk et al, 2008a)
The first proposed outcome was that a larger BOI effect should be observed with the low print exposure readers, because their lower integrity phonological representations should be further away from recognition threshold and would, benefit more from the greater motor simulation elicited by the high BOI words
The second proposed outcome was that a larger effect of BOI may be observed with the high print exposure readers, because they have more efficient orthographicto-semantics-to-phonology mappings that would allow them to benefit more from the greater motor simulation elicited by the high BOI words
Summary
The body-object interaction (BOI) variable measures perceptions of the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word’s referent (Siakaluk et al, 2008a). A facilitatory BOI effect was reported, and, interestingly, it was significantly larger than that observed in Experiment 1A (in which only one decision needed to be made) Since this initial study, a facilitatory BOI effect has been reported in semantic categorization tasks (using the same decision category as used in Siakaluk et al, 2008b) in which verbal responses were used (Wellsby et al, 2011) and in which multisyllabic words were used (Bennett et al, 2011; Yap et al, 2012b, who used a “Does the word refer to something that is concrete?” decision category). The same set of high BOI words, low BOI words, and action words
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