arXiv:2605.22616cs.CL2026-05

构建3000个中文词汇的具身认知数据库,揭示身体经验如何影响语言理解。

Chinese sensorimotor and embodiment norms for 3,000 lexicalized concepts

论文配图:Chinese sensorimotor and embodiment norms for 3,000 lexicalized concepts
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  • 基于378名母语者收集11维感官运动评分与单维具身度评分。
  • 感知具身强度(PSE)和闵可夫斯基-3是预测词汇识别的关键指标。
  • 纯语言模型可部分恢复感官特征,适合认知科学与AI研究者使用。

理解概念知识如何根植于身体经验,以及机器系统在缺乏直接感官运动体验的情况下能否习得此类知识,是认知科学与具身人工智能的核心问题。大规模规范性资源对实证研究至关重要,但非印欧语系的语言资源仍十分匮乏。本文构建了包含3000个汉语词汇的新型规范数据库,涵盖11维感官运动评分与单维具身度评分,数据来自378名母语者。评分具有高信度,并与现有中文资源呈现强跨规范效度,而后者覆盖词数更少且仅包含部分感官维度。验证研究表明,基于理论动机的感知具身强度(PSE)及七种常见复合变量在词汇判断任务中表现优异,其中PSE-Sensorimotor与Minkowski-3为最强预测因子,说明感官信息能促进词汇加工。进一步探索显示,通过简单回归模型可从纯语言表示中部分恢复感官评分(各维度平均斯皮尔曼相关系数r = .62),视觉与听觉维度恢复效果优于化感维度。表征相似性分析表明,感官空间的相对结构也部分可被恢复(r = .540),支持分布语言使用编码了具身概念结构的观点。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding how conceptual knowledge is grounded in bodily experience, and to what extent machine systems can acquire such knowledge without direct sensorimotor experience, are central questions in both cognitive science and embodied artificial intelligence research. Large-scale normative resources are essential for investigating these questions empirically, yet such resources remain sparse for non-Indo-European languages. We present a novel normative database for 3,000 lexicalized concepts in Mandarin Chinese, comprising 11-dimensional sensorimotor ratings and unidimensional embodiment ratings collected from 378 native Mandarin speakers. The ratings demonstrate high reliability and strong cross-norm validity with existing Chinese resources, each of which covers fewer words and a subset of the 11 sensorimotor dimensions. In a validation study, we tested new variables derived from a theoretically motivated metric, Perceptual Strength of Embodiment (PSE) (Huang et al., 2025), together with seven common composite variables, on lexical decision tasks. The results suggest that PSE-Sensorimotor and Minkowski-3 are the strongest composite predictors of lexical decision performance, capturing the facilitatory effects of sensorimotor information on lexical processing. A further exploratory study showed that sensorimotor ratings are substantially recoverable from purely linguistic representations using simple regression models (mean Spearman r = .62 across dimensions), though recovery varied markedly: visual and auditory dimensions yielded higher correspondence than chemosensory ones. Representational similarity analysis further showed that the relational geometry of the sensorimotor space is also partially recoverable (r = .540), consistent with the view that distributional language use encodes aspects of embodied conceptual structure.

具身认知语言处理中文数据感官运动

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