Black and white picture categorization: differences in the processing of living things and inanimate objects

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Published: Jul 22, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n2.8733
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categorization, naming, living rhings, inanimate objects, structural similarity

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Macarena Martínez-Cuitiño
Fundación INECO. Directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Lenguaje
Juan Pablo Barreyro
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
Virginia Jaichenco
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística

Abstract

Oral naming is the most used task assesses in order to identify dissociation in processing of living things (LT) and inanimate objects (IO). The performance of controls on this task is controversial. In general an advantage for the domain OI is detected. Some researchers have postulated that this advantage could be the product of the pre - semantic processes. The structural similarity of LT could explicate theses results. The aim of this study is to detect possible differences in LT and IO processing with a pictorial categorization task. The structural similarity could facilitate the categorization of LT. Nevertheless, the results show an advantage for IO. The results obtained are discussed in terms of the pre - semantic and semantic processes.

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Black and white picture categorization: differences in the processing of living things and inanimate objects. (2015). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 7(2), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n2.8733
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Macarena Martínez-Cuitiño, Fundación INECO. Directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Lenguaje

Directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Lenguaje (LILEN). Fundación INECO.

Integrante del Departamento de Lenguaje. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva. INECO.

Profesora Asociada. Universidad Favaloro.

Instituto de Lingüistica, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Juan Pablo Barreyro, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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Black and white picture categorization: differences in the processing of living things and inanimate objects. (2015). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 7(2), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n2.8733

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