Frames of reference in vision and language: Where is above?

Carlson-Radvansky, Laura A.; Irwin, David

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(93)90011-j

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“…Lindsley (1975) modified this paradigm to control for exuberant responses by showing participants the four sentence structures that they were allowed to use. Similar paradigms have been used in other studies (Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1993;Clark & Chase, 1974). Bock (1996) controlled for exuberant responses by employing material that tends to elicit a specific description.…”

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“…Accordingly, several studies have used an LO that did not have an orientation (e.g., Carlson & Van Deman, 2008;Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1993;Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1994;Levelt, 1996;Levinson, 1996;Pederson, 1995). According to Talmy's view (1983Talmy's view ( , 2000, the primary object (i.e., the LO) exhibits unknown spatial properties; it is smaller and geometrically simpler (often point like) than the secondary object (the RO).…”

Section: Cognitive Linguistics Theoriesmentioning

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Object Orientation Affects Spatial Language Comprehension

Burigo

Sacchi²

2013

Cognitive Science

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Typical spatial descriptions, such as "The car is in front of the house," describe the position of a located object (LO; e.g., the car) in space relative to a reference object (RO) whose location is known (e.g., the house). The orientation of the RO affects spatial language comprehension via the reference frame selection process. However, the effects of the LO's orientation on spatial language have not received great attention. This study explores whether the pure geometric information of the LO (e.g., its orientation) affects spatial language comprehension using placing and production tasks. Our results suggest that the orientation of the LO influences spatial language comprehension even in the absence of functional relationships.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Cognitive Linguistics Theoriesmentioning

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Object Orientation Affects Spatial Language Comprehension

Burigo

Sacchi²

2013

Cognitive Science

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“…Spatial codes for up and down are usually formed with reference to gravity (Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1993;Garnham, 1989). In Carlson-Radvansky and Irwin's Experiment 1, four kinds of pictures were presented to subjects.…”

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Stimulus and response representations underlying orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility effects

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Proctor

2003

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…To obtain converging evidence, in Experiment 1B we tested for an influence of distractor placement in an unspeeded acceptability-rating task. For the apprehension of spatial terms, speeded sentence/picture verification tasks and acceptability-rating judgments have generally shown the same pattern of performance (cf., Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1993, 1994. However, the decision criteria for the two tasks differ, with the speeded verification judgment biasing dichotomous judgments (i.e., above/not above) and the acceptability-rating task encouraging intermediate judgments.…”

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