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Size Does Matter: Implied Object Size is Mentally Simulated During Language Comprehension

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Figure 1 Samples of experimental sentence-picture pairs used in Experiments 1 and 2. Note that sentences were presented to participants in Dutch (translation in parentheses). Pictures were presented full-screen, so that also small instances of an object could be accurately perceived.
Figure 1 Samples of experimental sentence-picture pairs used in Experiments 1 and 2. Note that sentences were presented to participants in Dutch (translation in parentheses). Pictures were presented full-screen, so that also small instances of an object could be accurately perceived.
Figure 2 Mean response times for each sentence-picture combination for children (top) and adults (bottom). Error bars depict standard errors of the mean.
Figure 2 Mean response times for each sentence-picture combination for children (top) and adults (bottom). Error bars depict standard errors of the mean.

Table 1 Mean accuracy for each sentence-picture combination for adults and children separately.

List of experimental sentences in Dutch (left) and their English translations (right)