A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE)

Morey, R., Kaschak, M. P., Díez-Álamo, A. M., Glenberg, A. M., Zwaan, R. A., Lakens, D., Ibáñez, A., García, A. M., Gianelli, C. […] & Ziv-Crispel, N. (2021). A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 29, 613-626.

Este trabajo, realizado conjuntamente por 18 laboratorios a lo largo del mundo, indica que la encarnación clásica del paradigma de compatibilidad acción-oración no arroja efectos corporizados robustos. Si bien este hallazgo no pone en discusión los fenómenos de acoplamiento entre movimiento y lenguaje en general, sí invita a repensar los resultados obtenidos previamente mediante esta tarea en particular y, con ello, las interpretaciones derivadas para modelos de cognición corporizada.

Para acceder al artículo, hacé click aquí.

A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE)

The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences by producing movements toward the body or away from the body. The ACE is the finding that movements are faster when the direction of the movement (e.g., toward) matches the direction of the action in the to-be-judged sentence (e.g., Art gave you the pen describes action toward you). We report on a pre-registered, multi-lab replication of one version of the ACE. The results show that none of the 18 labs involved in the study observed a reliable ACE, and that the meta-analytic estimate of the size of the ACE was essentially zero.

To access the full paper, please click here.