María Noel Macedo (2018-X). Norma de ejes y dirección de movimientos para 299 verbos en español rioplatense. (Financiación y trabajo en curso)

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Tutor: Roberto Aguirre. Co-tutor: Álvaro Cabana. Funding: Scholarship to support the completion of postgraduate studies at Udelar, Master's Degree, 2021. The thesis project examines the understanding of the nature of modal representations.

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Different linguistic constructs have been taken, such as image schemas (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Barsalou, 1999). These schemas are pre-conceptual structures that arise from the movements of the body in space, perceptual interactions and the way we manipulate objects. They are gestalt schemes that capture the structural contours of the sensory-motor experience by integrating information from multiple modalities. (Hampe, 2005). The idea that sensorimotor perception influences language comprehension has given rise to multiple investigations that attempt to explain the nature of these modal representations. The theory indicates that, when trying to understand a text, different processes of a symbolic nature would be activated that would have the same nature as the objects or actions they represent (Barsalou, 1999; De Vega & Moreno, 2006). These image schemas would be integrated to form a representation of semantic knowledge. Then, through these image schemes, different perceptual and action patterns are identified that are activated when processing language related to objects and actions.

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With the interest of generating appropriate stimuli to continue carrying out these investigations, different norms have been developed that allow standardizing these image schemes for action verbs. Particularly, the rules carried out by Meteyard and Vigliocco (2009) on axes and directions of movement associated with verbs are the most extensive. These had the objective of establishing sets of verbs with consistent and sufficiently large semantic properties. Currently, these standards are used for the design and validation of stimuli used in psycholinguistic experiments. The objective of this research is to carry out a normalization of axes and directions of movement for a set of verbs in Spanish (299), equally significant to that carried out for the English language, which allows establishing appropriate stimuli for linguistic research in River Plate Spanish. It is also intended to use a larger sample, so that we achieve more robust results.

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*Macedo, M.N., Martínez, B., Aguirre, R. (7 / 2020). Are modal representations automatic ingrained when processing the meaning of motor concrete Spanish verbs?. 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (Póster)

 

*Martínez, B., Aguirre, R. & Macedo, M.N. (11/ 2019). ¿Qué tan automática es la representación modal de los eventos? Jornadas de Investigación Pasantía en Psicología experimental CIBPsi. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster)