The Effect of the Representational Similarity on Relational Processing

Yoonhyoung Lee (이윤형); Chang Hoan Lee (이창환); Youan Kwon (권유안)

The Effect of the Representational Similarity on Relational Processing

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2015, 36(), pp.135-148
Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
Published : February 28, 2015

Yoonhyoung Lee ¹, Chang Hoan Lee ², Youan Kwon ³

¹영남대학교
²서강대학교
³건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to test the nature of the representational similarity effect by examiningsimple sentences containing different levels of relational information. More specifically, participants’ readingtimes and accuracy of understanding of the transitive inferences with different types of noun phrases are testedin order to investigate whether the representational similarity affects the integration processes. The results ofthe two experiments showed clearly the effect of the complexity of the relational information as well as the effectof the representational similarity. More importantly, relational complexity pattern and the similarity factorare interacting only when integrations are needed. Such results support the idea that the locus of the representationalsimilarity is the integration stage of the cognitive processes.

KEYWORDS

representational similarity, relational information, cognitive processing, integration

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