Abstract
A number of studies have demonstrated the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE), where execution of a motor response is facilitated by reading sentences that describe actions that involve the same direction. It has also been demonstrated that the representations for subsequent words are activated during reading. However, our previous study failed to observe the ACE between subsequent verbs and the required responses immediately after the object in subject-object-verb (S-O-V) sentences. The present study manipulates the stimulus onset asynchronicity (SOA) between the sentence object and the go-signal for responses to investigate whether the ACE could be observed when participants execute their responses after anticipating the subsequent sentence verb. While the ACE was observed in a long SOA condition, it was not found in a short SOA condition. Moreover, participants with medium language processing speeds tended to exhibit large ACEs in the long SOA condition.
