A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

Richard D Morey; Michael P Kaschak; Antonio M Díez-Álamo; Arthur M Glenberg; Rolf A Zwaan; Daniël Lakens; Agustín Ibáñez; Adolfo García; Claudia Gianelli; John L Jones; Julie Madden; Florencia Alifano; Benjamin Bergen; Nicholas G Bloxsom; Daniel N Bub; Zhenguang G Cai; Christopher R Chartier; Anjan Chatterjee; Erin Conwell; Joshua D Davis; Susan Wagner Cook; Ellen R. K Evers; Sandrine Girard; Derek Harter; Franziska Hartung; Eduar Herrera; Falk Huettig; Stacey Humphries; Marie Juanchich; Katharina Kühne; Shulan Lu; Tom Lynes; Michael E. J Masson; Markus Ostarek; Sebastiaan Pessers; Rebecca Reglin; Sara Steegen; Erik D Thiessen; Laura E Thomas; Sean Trott; Joachim Vandekerckhove; Wolf Vanpaemel; Maria Vlachou; Kristina Williams; Noam Ziv-Crispel

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A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

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A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

Richard D Morey, Michael P Kaschak, Antonio M Díez-Álamo, Arthur M Glenberg, Rolf A Zwaan, Daniël Lakens, Agustín Ibáñez, Adolfo García, Claudia Gianelli, John L Jones, …

Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.29(2), pp.613-626

11/09/2021

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01927-8

PMCID: PMC9038876

PMID: 34755319

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AbstractThe 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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Title: Subtitle: A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)
Creators: Richard D Morey
Michael P Kaschak
Antonio M Díez-Álamo
Arthur M Glenberg
Rolf A Zwaan
Daniël Lakens
Agustín Ibáñez
Adolfo García
Claudia Gianelli
John L Jones
Julie Madden
Florencia Alifano
Benjamin Bergen
Nicholas G Bloxsom
Daniel N Bub
Zhenguang G Cai
Christopher R Chartier
Anjan Chatterjee
Erin Conwell
Joshua D Davis
Susan Wagner Cook
Ellen R. K Evers
Sandrine Girard
Derek Harter
Franziska Hartung
Eduar Herrera
Falk Huettig
Stacey Humphries
Marie Juanchich
Katharina Kühne
Shulan Lu
Tom Lynes
Michael E. J Masson
Markus Ostarek
Sebastiaan Pessers
Rebecca Reglin
Sara Steegen
Erik D Thiessen
Laura E Thomas
Sean Trott
Joachim Vandekerckhove
Wolf Vanpaemel
Maria Vlachou
Kristina Williams
Noam Ziv-Crispel
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.29(2), pp.613-626
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01927-8
PMID: 34755319
PMCID: PMC9038876
NLM abbreviation: Psychon Bull Rev
ISSN: 1069-9384
eISSN: 1531-5320
Language: English
Date published: 11/09/2021
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984197491702771

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