Cohn, Neil and Foulsham, Tom (2022) Meaning above (and in) the head: Combinatorial visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory & Cognition, 50 (7). pp. 1381-1398. DOI https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01294-2
Cohn, Neil and Foulsham, Tom (2022) Meaning above (and in) the head: Combinatorial visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory & Cognition, 50 (7). pp. 1381-1398. DOI https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01294-2
Cohn, Neil and Foulsham, Tom (2022) Meaning above (and in) the head: Combinatorial visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory & Cognition, 50 (7). pp. 1381-1398. DOI https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01294-2
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Compositionality is a primary feature of language, but graphics can also create combinatorial meaning, like with items above faces (e.g., lightbulbs to mean inspiration). We posit that these “upfixes” (i.e., upwards affixes) involve a productive schema enabling both stored and novel face–upfix dyads. In two experiments, participants viewed either conventional (e.g., lightbulb) or unconventional (e.g., clover-leaves) upfixes with faces which either matched (e.g., lightbulb/smile) or mismatched (e.g., lightbulb/frown). In Experiment 1, matching dyads sponsored higher comprehensibility ratings and faster response times, modulated by conventionality. In Experiment 2, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) revealed conventional upfixes, regardless of matching, evoked larger N250s, indicating perceptual expertise, but mismatching and unconventional dyads elicited larger semantic processing costs (N400) than conventional-matching dyads. Yet mismatches evoked a late negativity, suggesting congruent novel dyads remained construable compared with violations. These results support that combinatorial graphics involve a constrained productive schema, similar to the lexicon of language.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Visual language; Morphology; Affixation; Compositionality |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2022 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:48 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/32466 |
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