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Beyond grasping: Syllables processing influences mere manual keypress

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We aimed to better understand the link between vocalization and grasping. We especially test whether neurocognitive processes underlying this interaction are not grasping specific. To test this hypothesis, we used the procedure of a previous experiment, showing that silently reading the syllable KA and TI can facilitate power- and precision-grip responses, respectively. In our experiment, the participants have to silently read the syllable KA or TI but, according to the color of the syllables, have merely to press a large or small switch (we removed the grasping component of responses). Responses on the large switch were faster when the syllable KA was read compared with TI and conversely for the responses carried out on the small switch. This result supports that the influence of vocalization is not restricted to grasping responses, and, in addition, it supports an alternative, non-grasping-specific model of interactions between vocalization and grasping.

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  1. Hereafter, we detailed, for the four groups, how each color (green vs. blue) and each size (large vs. small) have been assigned to each key (D vs. L): (i) D-blue-large/L-green-small, (ii) D-blue-small/L-green-large, (iii) D-green-large/L-blue-small, and (iv) D-green-small/L-blue-large.

  2. In the Supplementary Material, we reported an additional analysis using the method used by Vainio et al. (2014) to discard deviant correct RTs. We chose to report the method used by Heurley et al. (2020) in this manuscript because it excludes less data (i.e., 0.2% with the method of Heurley et al., 2020, instead of 3.9% with the method of Vainio et al., 2014). However, both methods lead to similar results and conclusions. In the Supplementary Material, we also reported an analysis on accuracy.

  3. In line with this hypothesis, it is therefore critical to take into account the mother tongue of the participants because some vowels and/or consonants are pronounced very differently and thus, the acoustic properties of the tones could strongly vary between for instance native English speakers (as in Gentilucci & Campione, 2011), native Finnish speakers (Vainio & Vainio, 2022) or native French speakers (as in our current work).

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    Loïc P. Heurley, Ronan Guerineau & Hamza Sabek

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Loïc P. Heurley conceived the theoretical rationale of the study and designed and conducted the experiment. All authors performed the data analyses, drafted the manuscript, and approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.

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Heurley, L.P., Guerineau, R. & Sabek, H. Beyond grasping: Syllables processing influences mere manual keypress. Psychon Bull Rev 30, 2203–2209 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02307-0

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