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 mov...

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Published in:	Psychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 613 - 626
Main Authors:	Morey, Richard D., Kaschak, Michael P., Díez-Álamo, Antonio M., Glenberg, Arthur M., Zwaan, Rolf A., Lakens, Daniël, Ibáñez, Agustín, García, Adolfo, Gianelli, Claudia, Jones, John L., Madden, Julie, Alifano, Florencia, Bergen, Benjamin, Bloxsom, Nicholas G., Bub, Daniel N., Cai, Zhenguang G., Chartier, Christopher R., Chatterjee, Anjan, Conwell, Erin, Cook, Susan Wagner, Davis, Joshua D., Evers, Ellen R. K., Girard, Sandrine, Harter, Derek, Hartung, Franziska, Herrera, Eduar, Huettig, Falk, Humphries, Stacey, Juanchich, Marie, Kühne, Katharina, Lu, Shulan, Lynes, Tom, Masson, Michael E. J., Ostarek, Markus, Pessers, Sebastiaan, Reglin, Rebecca, Steegen, Sara, Thiessen, Erik D., Thomas, Laura E., Trott, Sean, Vandekerckhove, Joachim, Vanpaemel, Wolf, Vlachou, Maria, Williams, Kristina, Ziv-Crispel, Noam
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01-04-2022 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Behavioral Science and Psychology Brief Report Cognitive Psychology Comprehension Experiments Humans Language Movement Paradigms Psychology Reaction Time Registration Simulation Volleyball Embodied cognition Action-sentence compatibility effect
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Summary:	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.
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ISSN:	1069-9384 1531-5320
DOI:	10.3758/s13423-021-01927-8