Establishing the Emoji Sensorimotor Norms

Sensorimotor information (ie. information that we experience through our senses) plays a role in cognition, particularly in relation to how we represent knowledge of concepts in memory. We are replicating the approach used in the Lancaster Sensorimotor norms, which gets people's ratings about how strong they perceive different concepts based on different perceptual modalities. These modalities are touch, hearing, smell, taste, vision and interoception. Additionally, people's rating how the extent they experience these concepts via different action effectors: mouth/throat, hand/arm, foot/leg, head (excluding mouth/throat) and torso. We are replicating this but in respect of Emoji, so we can gain large-scale data about how concepts represented in emoji might be represented and retrieved by sensorimotor integration.