### Overview This is the Open Science Framework page for the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) large-scale replication project. ACE is a motor compatibility effect first reported by Glenberg and Kaschak (2002). The canonical demonstration of the ACE is as follows. Participants read (or listen to) sentences describing directional action (e.g., *"Meghan handed you the book"* is an action toward you, and *"You handed Meghan the book"* is an action away from you). Participants are asked to judge if the sentence is sensible. The sensibility judgment is made by executing an action either toward or away from the body. The ACE is an interaction of the directional action depicted in the sentence and the directional action required to respond to the sentence: participants execute the action more quickly (typically indexed by the time required to read the sentence and lift off from the start position) when the direction of the sentence action matches the direction of the response action. The ACE was one of the first demonstrations of a relationship between language comprehension and motor processing, and this effect (and similar effects reported using slightly different paradigms; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006; Bub & Masson, 2010) has been important in building the case for an embodied approach to language comprehension (see Ibanez et al., in press, for a review). This ACE replication project is a large-scale attempt to assess the reliability of the ACE. Here you can find information about the project, including the pre-registered methodology, pre-registered analysis plan, data, and results. Here is a brief overview of the important files as they currently stand. ### Information documents #### List of project files The wiki containing descriptions of all files available from the project OSF page, including descriptions. <br/>https://osf.io/ynbwu/wiki/Project%20file%20descriptions/ #### Method description and pre-registration Overview of proposed data cleaning and analysis procedures <br/>https://osf.io/356aj/ #### Pre-registration addendum Revised details of the proposed data cleaning, based on blinded analyses (that is, data were scrambled) <br/>https://osf.io/8dpyu/ ### Data files #### Data set meta-data The wiki containing a description of all the columns in the data set <br/>https://osf.io/ynbwu/wiki/Final%20data%20file/ #### Left-handed participant list Data set containing a list of the left-handed participants in the data set; necessary for cleaning and running the R code above <br/>https://osf.io/c6n4e/ #### Data set (not cleaned) The final compiled data set, before cleaning steps have been applied. Necessary for running R code above <br/>https://osf.io/4dru9/ #### Data set (cleaned) The final compiled data set, after cleaning steps have been applied. <br/>https://osf.io/5kbw2/ ### Analysis files See the [Analyses](https://osf.io/ynbwu/wiki/Analyses/) wiki. ### References * Bub, D. N., & Masson, M. E. J. (2010). On the nature of hand-action representations evoked during written sentence comprehension. Cognition, 116(3), 394–408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2010.06.001 * Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(3), 558–565. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196313 * Zwaan, R. A., & Taylor, L. J. (2006). Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 135(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.135.1.1