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Pupillometric and behavioural evidence shows no differences between polyseme and homonym processing

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    Identifier: imarina:9325568
    Authors:
    Haro JLópez-Cortés NFerré P
    Abstract:
    Ambiguous words can have related meanings (polysemes, e.g., newspaper) or unrelated meanings (homonyms, e.g., bat). Here we examined the processing of both types of ambiguous words (as well as unambiguous words) in tasks of increasing level of semantic engagement. Four experiments were conducted in which the degree of semantic engagement of the task was manipulated: lexical decision task (Experiments 1 and 2), semantic categorization task (Experiment 3) and number-of-meanings task (Experiment 4). RTs and pupillary response were recorded. To our knowledge, pupillary response had never been used before to study ambiguous words processing in isolation. Results showed faster RTs for ambiguous words with respect to unambiguous words in LDT, and larger pupil dilation was observed for ambiguous words in comparison to unambiguous ones in number-of-meanings task. However, differences between polysemes and homonyms were not observed in any task. These results provide no evidence that polysemes and homonyms are processed differently.Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Haro J; López-Cortés N; Ferré P
    Department: Psicologia
    URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Rodriguez, Juan
    Keywords: Semantic ambiguity Pupillometry Pupillary response Polysemes Lexical ambiguity Homonyms Experimental task difficulty Ambiguous words processing
    Abstract: Ambiguous words can have related meanings (polysemes, e.g., newspaper) or unrelated meanings (homonyms, e.g., bat). Here we examined the processing of both types of ambiguous words (as well as unambiguous words) in tasks of increasing level of semantic engagement. Four experiments were conducted in which the degree of semantic engagement of the task was manipulated: lexical decision task (Experiments 1 and 2), semantic categorization task (Experiment 3) and number-of-meanings task (Experiment 4). RTs and pupillary response were recorded. To our knowledge, pupillary response had never been used before to study ambiguous words processing in isolation. Results showed faster RTs for ambiguous words with respect to unambiguous words in LDT, and larger pupil dilation was observed for ambiguous words in comparison to unambiguous ones in number-of-meanings task. However, differences between polysemes and homonyms were not observed in any task. These results provide no evidence that polysemes and homonyms are processed differently.Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.
    Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Medicine (miscellaneous) Interdisciplinar General medicine Experimental and cognitive psychology Engenharias iii Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat juan.haro@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-3456-4731
    Record's date: 2024-08-03
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823001610?via%3Dihub
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Acta Psychologica. 238 103985-103985
    APA: Haro J; López-Cortés N; Ferré P (2023). Pupillometric and behavioural evidence shows no differences between polyseme and homonym processing. Acta Psychologica, 238(), 103985-103985. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103985
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103985
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2023
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Arts and Humanities (Miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Medicine (Miscellaneous),Psychology, Experimental
    Semantic ambiguity
    Pupillometry
    Pupillary response
    Polysemes
    Lexical ambiguity
    Homonyms
    Experimental task difficulty
    Ambiguous words processing
    Psychology, experimental
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Medicine (miscellaneous)
    Interdisciplinar
    General medicine
    Experimental and cognitive psychology
    Engenharias iii
    Educação física
    Developmental and educational psychology
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
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