Differential Aging Effects in Embodied Processing of Chinese Body-Driven and Environment-Driven Action Verbs

Previous research has highlighted the embodied nature of lexicosemantic processing, but the embodied aging of lexicosemantic processing remains largely unresolved. The present study, utilizing a semantic categorization task which capitalized on two types of contrasting action verbs, namely, the body-driven and environment-driven action verbs across two age groups, examined lexicosemantic aging as well as the role of embodiment in lexicosemantic aging. Results turned out that aging effects occurred to both types of action verbs indeed, but the body-driven action verbs, compared to environment-driven action verbs exhibited a lower vulnerability to aging.