Abstract
Mental simulation during sentence comprehension activated perceptual information about the content of the sentence even if the object in the sentence has the specific action-related knowledge. This phenomenon, however, showed in study used only the sentences describing an action that use the objects related to the faces. Therefore, this study investigated the perceptual information that is activated by the comprehension of sentences describing an action that use the objects unrelated to the face. On a word-picture verification task, participants read the sentences and then judged whether the objects in the pictures were identical to the objects describing in the sentences. Results showed that the verification times were significantly faster when the actions in the pictures matched the action described in the sentences than when they were mismatched. This result suggests that perceptual information corresponding to the content of the sentence is activated regardless of the action-related property of object.
