Mental Representations Of Implied Color Information In Language Comprehension

In 1960s and 1970s, the development of embodied philosophy evoked the emergence of second generation cognitive science which considers cognition perceptual in nature and an embodied progress. The Immersed Experiencer Frame was developed after which suggests that comprehender was an immersed experiencer. The process of comprehension is considered to be the experiences of the described sentences which form sensorimotor simulation or mental simulation of the objects by reactivating the relevant perceptual representations and motor information to comprehend language by establishing representations of the scene described. There are many researches on mental simulation and sentence comprehension, but research on the mental representation of color information was not paid enough attention to.The subjects in this study were high school students. The sentence-picture verification task was adopted to explore the representation of implied color information during the process of language comprehension. In the first experiment, the subjects set the reading speed to present sentences to investigate how the implied color information was represented in the process of language comprehension or how typical color information of the object works. Reading span is a factor that can't be ignored in language comprehension, thus in the second experiment, Rapid Visual Programe was adopted to present sentences to examine how the representation of implied color information was influenced by reading span at different times.The results suggested that (a) The subjects represented the color of objects in the course of reading comprehension and supported the embodied views of language comprehension. (b) The schema about the subjects'typical colour which unused in our lives have been working in the course of representing colour information (c) Compared with subjects with low reading span, subjects with high reading span comprehended the meaning of the sentences and represented the colors of the objects in the sentences more quickly.