Horizontal Spatial Metaphor Effects in Moral Concepts:Evidence from Behavior and ERP
The horizontal spatial metaphor of morality is the process of mapping from the concept of horizontal spatial orientation as the source domain to the target domain represented by abstract moral concepts.The study set up two experiments using the spatial Stroop paradigm to explore this effect from both behavioral and cognitive neural perspectives.The results showed that:1)the interaction between vocabulary type and presentation orientation was not significant;2)there was no significant difference in the activation levels of EEG components P300,N200,and N400 under consistent conditions(moral words appearing on the right and immoral words appearing on the left)and inconsistent conditions(moral words appearing on the left and immoral words appearing on the right).The results indicate that there may not be a horizontal spatial metaphorical effect in Chinese moral concept words,and individuals may not use left and right positions as a reference to represent moral concepts.To some extent,the study provides new empirical references for the study of moral conceptual metaphors and embodied morality.
moral conceptshorizontal spaceconceptual metaphorsevent-related potential
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