Dutch modality exclusivity norms: Simulating perceptual modality in space

-hii: Modality Meets Exclusivity

We present evidence from two experiments demonstrating that the Hindi focus particle -hii is sensitive to variable scalar endpoints, and we relate these findings to previous work on only and modality to unify the taxonomy of exclusive particles with formalized notions of speaker expectations. Only, and other exclusives in English, can appeal to a set of rank-ordered scalar alternatives. Such pa...

Transfer across modality in perceptual implicit memory.

We examined whether words studied in one modality (visual or auditory) would prime performance in the opposite modality in five different perceptual implicit memory tests: auditory perceptual identification, auditory stem completion, visual perceptual identification, visual stem completion, and visual fragment completion. Significant transfer across modality was observed in all five tasks. Howe...

Stimulus Modality and Perceptual Category Learning 1 Stimulus Modality Interacts with Category Structure in Perceptual Category Learning

Two experiments were conducted that examined information-integration and rule-based category learning using stimuli that contained auditory and visual information. Results suggest that it is easier to perceptually integrate information within these sensory modalities than across modalities. Conversely, it is easier to perform a disjunctive rule-based task when information comes from different s...

A sharp image or a sharp knife: norms for the modality-exclusivity of 774 concept-property items

According to recent embodied cognition theories, mental concepts are represented by modality-specific sensory-motor systems. Much of the evidence for modality-specificity in conceptual processing comes from the property-verification task. When applying this and other tasks, it is important to select items based on their modality-exclusivity. We collected modality ratings for a set of 387 proper...

Time and Modality in Avicennan Logic