@article{dd7455df60a044d093b56b38acc9e638,
title = "Sensorimotor norms for Chinese nouns and their relationship with orthographic and semantic variables",
abstract = "Sensorimotor information is vital to the conceptual representation of our knowledge system. This study collects perceptual and action ratings for 664 disyllabic nouns among 438 native speakers and creates the first and largest dataset of sensorimotor norms for nouns in Chinese. Using aggregated semantic covariates, including concreteness ratings from a concreteness rating study, as well as the reaction times and error rates from a lexical decision study, our current work demonstrates the strengths of sensory modalities and action effectors in Chinese nouns and explores the contributions of embodied experiences in reflecting orthographic representations and semantic processing in the Chinese language. This study contributes valuable data sources to the study of Chinese lexical processing and highlights the importance of sensorimotor information and embodied manifestations in the semantic representations of concepts. Our results also support the language universal that orthographic awareness in lexical processing and reading supersedes phonological awareness.",
keywords = "Chinese nouns, Sensorimotor norms, embodied cognition, lexical processing, orthography",
author = "Yin Zhong and Mingyu Wan and Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-ren Huang",
note = "Funding Information: The first and third authors would like to acknowledge the dean's reserve grant (1-ZVTL) from Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This research was also partially supported by the Hong Kong University Grants Council GRF #5610621 to the corresponding author. Thanks go to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful, constructive, and valuable suggestions and comments. Remaining errors are our sole responsibility. This study was conducted following the Human Subjects Ethics Sub-committee (HSESC) (or its Delegate) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HSESC Reference Number: HSEARS20200810001). Funding Information: The first and third authors would like to acknowledge the dean's reserve grant (1-ZVTL) from Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This research was also partially supported by the Hong Kong University Grants Council GRF #5610621 to the corresponding author. Thanks go to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful, constructive, and valuable suggestions and comments. Remaining errors are our sole responsibility. This study was conducted following the Human Subjects Ethics Sub-committee (HSESC) (or its Delegate) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HSESC Reference Number: HSEARS20200810001). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "7",
language = "English",
volume = "37",
pages = "1000--1022",
journal = "Language, Cognition and Neuroscience",
issn = "2327-3798",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Inc.",
number = "8",
}