Works in Progess #2

The second presentation I went to was the "Thinking in Color" which was presented by Samantha Patton. The idea of this presentation was embodied cognition. She was experimenting concrete words against abstract words. Her first experiment involved fifty two students, fifty concrete words, and 150 abstract words. The object was to say whatever color comes to mind when you hear a certain word. She experiemented in this to see if there was a pattern in people's answers. She took the top half (seventy five) of students to the next experiment. They moved on to seventy five abstract words and seventy five filled words. The purpose was to emphasize semantic processing over syntactic processing, while they excluded the color brown. The expectations of this experiment were to hope for an effect, look at response time, and look at the accuracy.