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aging
effort
imaginability
counterfactual
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Abstract
Currently, the validity of the proposals of embodiment cognition and its relationship with the language of older adults is unknown. To answer this, we conducted an experiment with the Effort, Imaginability, and Linguistic Context factors. 50 older adults (M= 66.18 years, SD= 4.39, 22 women and 28 men) and 43 young people (M= 21.28 years, SD= 1.08, 36 women and 7 men) read sentences on a computer screen, pressing the space bar to then decide whether or not a word was in the sentence just read. The results show main effects for the Imaginability (β = 0.309; p <0.05) and Context factors(β = -0.856; p <0.001) in the reading times of the direct object, two effects of Imaginability-Effort interaction (β = - 0.732; p <0.01) and Imaginability-Context (β = 0.611; p <0.05) for the circumstantial complement, and one interactive Imaginability-Context effect (β = 0.727; p <0.05) for the activation word. The results support a vision of weak corporeality with interactive integration of the corporeal and symbolic properties of the texts. It is necessary to extend the research to other embodiment parameters, ages, and languages to contrast these results.
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